Title - Colleen and the Leprechaun Author: Forrest, Ellen Publisher: Reading A-Z Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre An eight-year-old girl takes a trip to Ireland to meet her grandparents for the first time. On the way to her grandparents' home, her grandfather fascinates her with stories of Celtic fairies and Irish legends, mysteriously warning her to watch for little people. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 418 2.5 610 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 23 Total # of Words 608 # of Different Words 262 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 374 61.5% # of Hi freq words 112 42.7% % of Long Sentences 5.4 Low Freq occurs 29 4.8% # of Low freq words 17 6.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Multiple speakers Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concept: Fanciful Additional activities Features Topics Travel/Traveling Storytelling *Entertainment & Fun Low Frequency Words dandelion dandelions fairies fellows hedge hedgerow hoping legend legends leprechaun leprechauns mysteriously questioned scotland shovel suspicion warned