Title - Zithers
Author: Vaughan, Marcia
Publisher: Celebration Press

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
How to make a zither Entertain Informational
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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54 1.0 90
RDQ based on a maximum of 3000 words Levels are suggested levels based on RDQ, not official levels
Sentences Total Words Different Words
Max Word/Sent 14 Total # of Words 55 # of Different Words 34
Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 16 29.1% # of Hi freq words 8 23.5%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 2 3.6% # of Low freq words 1 2.9%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Caption/Simple
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Simple phrases
Text structure: Oral/Natural
Features
Second Person
Topics
*Music
Musical instruments
Noises
Low Frequency Words
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