Title - Carla's Ribbons
Author: Harper, Leslie
Publisher: Kaeden Books

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
Carla wears two colored ribbons in her hair to school each day, but comes home with only one. What is happening to the lost ribbons? Entertain Concept
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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135 1.5 170 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 13 Total # of Words 212 # of Different Words 63
Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 81 38.2% # of Hi freq words 20 31.7%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 0 0% # of Low freq words 0 0%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Several repetitions of phrases or refrains
Dialog: Two speakers
Dialog: Broken dialogue
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Multiple phrases
Text structure: Story/Poem
Features
Topics
Clothes
Days of the week
Lost
*Feelings, Behaviors
Birds
School
Low Frequency Words