Title - Flat Stanley on Ice
Author: Houran, Lori Haskins
Publisher: Scholastic

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
Flat Stanley and Arthur are excited to go ice-skating on the frozen lake. But when the weather suddenly warms up, Stanley finds himself skating on thin ice! Entertain Fantasy
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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270 2.1 520 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 24 Total # of Words 578 # of Different Words 263
Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 311 53.8% # of Hi freq words 98 37.3%
% of Long Sentences 2.5 Low Freq occurs 5 0.9% # of Low freq words 5 1.9%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Dialog: Two speakers
Dialog: Broken dialogue
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Multiple phrases
Text structure: Blend of written/oral
Features
Topics
*Weather
Danger
Skating
Brothers
*Family & Friends
Low Frequency Words
gliding mouthful scarves sliding terrific