| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Young Charlie watches from a distance as artist Gregory paints. The two communicate next through messages on the artist's canvas, and then, painting side-by-side, through sharing the process of creative expression, as Gregory paints his singular vision and Charlie discovers his own. |
Entertain |
Realistic Fiction |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 390 |
2.4 |
600 |
Amazon
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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 |
26 |
Total # of Words |
693 |
# of Different Words |
251 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
12 |
Hi Freq occurs |
376 |
54.3% |
# of Hi freq words |
91 |
36.3% |
| % of Long Sentences |
14.8 |
Low Freq occurs |
15 |
2.2% |
# of Low freq words |
9 |
3.6% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Many Long Complex |
| Text structure: Oral/Natural |
| Inferences: Some implications |
| Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social |
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| Features |
| Character traits |
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| Topics |
| Teacher/Teaching |
| Boats |
| Painting |
| Summer |
| Observation |
| *Arts & Crafts |
| Ponds,pools |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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astonished |
easel |
introduced |
musical |
paddled |
summered |
symphony |
whistled |
whistling |
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