Title - Coat of Many Colors Author: Parton, Dolly Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Winter is coming to Tennessee and there's no money to buy a new coat, so a little girl's mama sews one for her out of rags. The little girl wears it to school proudly, and when the other children laugh, she gives them a quick lesson about what it means to be rich. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 318 2.2 550 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 48 Total # of Words 361 # of Different Words 137 Ave Word/.Sent 19 Hi Freq occurs 232 64.3% # of Hi freq words 59 43.1% % of Long Sentences 47.4 Low Freq occurs 17 4.7% # of Low freq words 12 8.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Some phrases/refrains repeated Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Character traits First Person Topics Mothers Clothes Sewing Appearances *Family & Friends Low Frequency Words blessed britches happiness patches precious recall season sewed stitch wandering worth youth