| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Magic begins when a frog hops through Lucy's bedroom window with a party invitation. What follows is a delightful summer idyll, complete with cricket music, a baby bird, and a birthday cake, and ending in the happy reunion with an old lost doll that had belonged to her grandmother. |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 655 |
3.0 |
670 |
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| RDQ based on a maximum of 3000 words |
Levels are suggested levels based on RDQ, not official levels |
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| Sentences |
Total Words |
Different Words |
| Max Word/Sent |
32 |
Total # of Words |
891 |
# of Different Words |
340 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
10 |
Hi Freq occurs |
527 |
59.1% |
# of Hi freq words |
134 |
39.4% |
| % of Long Sentences |
12.4 |
Low Freq occurs |
34 |
3.8% |
# of Low freq words |
23 |
6.8% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Inferences: Some implications |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Colorful, figurative |
| Sentences: Some Long/Complex |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
| Inferences: Some implications |
| Complexity: Several ideas - closely related |
| Concept: Fanciful |
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| Features |
| Figurative Language |
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| Topics |
| Toys |
| Birthdays |
| Magic |
| Parties |
| *Holidays, Events, Cele |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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ache |
announced |
astonished |
chapeau |
faraway |
fete |
foof |
further |
gumdrops |
handsome |
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inching |
inchworm |
invitation |
joint |
lacy |
madame |
merrily |
moonlight |
nighttime |
spied |
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tattered |
velvety |
vowed |
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