Title - Fluffy's Spring Vacation
Author: McMullan, Kate
Publisher: Scholastic

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
Fluffy, the class guinea pig, must deal with the unwanted attention of two cats, a visit to the hair salon, and a trip to the airport, when he goes home with Emma for spring vacation. Entertain Fantasy
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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393 2.4 600 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 17 Total # of Words 1152 # of Different Words 312
Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 724 62.8% # of Hi freq words 147 47.1%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 3 0.3% # of Low freq words 3 1%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Little support
Dialog: Multiple speakers
Dialog: Broken dialogue
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Many descriptive words
Sentences: Simple phrases
Text structure: Story/Poem
Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social
Chapters
Features
Character traits
Clear cause/effect
Topics
Cats
Danger
Imagination
Pretend
School
Low Frequency Words
guinea kitties purse