Title - Elmer and the Dragon Author: Gannett, Ruth Stiles Publisher: Trumpet Club Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre On their way home, Elmer and a flying dragon land on an unusual island and help some canaries uncover a buried treasure, in this sequel to "My Father's Dragon". Entertain Fairy Tales RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 798 3.3 700 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 53 Total # of Words 1627 # of Different Words 537 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 1102 67.7% # of Hi freq words 230 42.8% % of Long Sentences 15.2 Low Freq occurs 75 4.6% # of Low freq words 49 9.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Concept: Fanciful Table of Contents Headings Features Simple Plot Topics Treasures Flight/Flying Dragons Storms Ocean Islands Rescue *Fictional Ideas/Charac Birds Low Frequency Words aboard admiring announced anxiously blackening burlap clambered compass curled delicious drizzly edged elevator emergency ferns ferocious grateful gull hoping horizon jackknife knapsack lapping lollipops milkweed miserable moonlight nevergreen ostrich ought peering popsicornia prisoner quicksand rescued seagulls shallower stomach's tangerina tangerine tangerines thrashing uncomfortable waking whir whiter wilder yawned