Title - Autumn Leaves Are Falling
Author: Fleming, Maria
Publisher: Scholastic

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
This rhyming story in easy text for beginning readers tells of a group of children who have fun playing in autumn's falling leaves Entertain Concept
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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119 1.4 160 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 16 Total # of Words 125 # of Different Words 60
Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 59 47.2% # of Hi freq words 16 26.7%
% of Long Sentences 4.3 Low Freq occurs 2 1.6% # of Low freq words 2 3.3%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Moderate support
Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues
Language: Many descriptive words
Sentences: Simple phrases
Text structure: Story/Poem
Features
Rhyming
Topics
Trees
*Plants
Autumn
Seasons
Cleaning
Play/Playing
Low Frequency Words
piling romping