Title - A Golden Tragedy Author: King, Robin Publisher: Reading A-Z Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Readers will read the tragic story of King Midas who loved his daughter very much and would do anything to please her. One day, Penelope told her father that she wished her birds could lay golden eggs. In an effort to please his daughter, the king made a wish that would literally change everything. Entertain Fairy Tales RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 705 3.1 680 Amazon 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 26 Total # of Words 803 # of Different Words 366 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 460 57.3% # of Hi freq words 124 33.9% % of Long Sentences 8 Low Freq occurs 78 9.7% # of Low freq words 67 18.3% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concept: Fanciful Glossary Bold/Italicized Words Additional activities Features Character traits Character development Clear cause/effect Parody Storybook Language Topics Magic Gold Kings/Queens *Fictional Ideas/Charac Low Frequency Words bordered casting chef cluckers consequences curse delighting despite dithered doubt embrace enlist feathered fortune fowl frenzied fretted furiously glee glistened glistening gobbled gobblers goblet grant hardened honkers hue humble hurriedly immense inquire instantly kingdom liquid littered magically melons mounted musical occurred paced panic peaceful penelope pheasant plumpest precious prove quackers quaked regret request royal shrank statue surrounds tragedy tragic turkeys urged warned weakness wealth wealthiest wealthy wrist