Title - Apples and Pumpkins
Author: Rockwell, Anne
Publisher: Scholastic

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
"When red and yellow leaves are on the trees," a little girl goes with her parents to a farm where they pick apples and choose "the best pumpkin of them all." Entertain Realistic Fiction
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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211 2.0 470 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 187 # of Different Words 98
Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 82 43.9% # of Hi freq words 28 28.6%
% of Long Sentences 12.5 Low Freq occurs 5 2.7% # of Low freq words 5 5.1%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Some Long/Complex
Text structure: Story/Poem
Features
Present Tense
Topics
*Plants
Autumn
Seasons
Farms
Food
*Holidays, Events, Cele
Halloween
Low Frequency Words
bushel halloween lantern orchard reddest