Title - Foal in the Fog Author: Baglio, Ben M. Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Mandy and her best friend James are used to dealing with animals in distress. But ghostly animals in distress are a different matter... Entertain Mystery RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1518 4.3 830 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 31 Total # of Words 3135 # of Different Words 998 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 2164 69% # of Hi freq words 407 40.8% % of Long Sentences 6.8 Low Freq occurs 216 6.9% # of Low freq words 169 16.9% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Chapters Features Character traits Integral Setting Simple Plot Difficult names Topics Ghosts *Animals Friendship Horses Low Frequency Words affectionately aflame amused announced approached approvingly auburn boulders breathed breezily calculator chestnut cinder cinder's cinders clinic cobblestone cobblestones contentedly cousin's craned cranmere curious curtains dartmoors delicately delving departure devon dewer dismiss distasteful drawn dreamless eased echoed edged eerily embedded encouragement excitedly expanse felicity fend fern feston gazed girth glancing glimpse gorgeous granite guilty haunting headless heather hedges hesitantly hollowed hooves horsemen horseshoes illuminated imagination immediately impatiently impression impressive invitingly invoices jagged kneel legends lightly longing lovingly magnificent midsummer moonlight moor moors mounted mouthful mysterious nobleman nudged nuzzled overgrown overtired parted patient peaceful pixies plaque presumed prickle rearview reins reluctant response restlessly reveal roaming rousing rover royal scent scorhill senders shepherd shepherd's shied shouldered siddeford sideways sleek sleepyhead smoothed snuffled soothing sounding soundly spellbound spending spite stable stabled stables stalked stall stalled stallions stirrup straightened streaked streamed sturdy suited surrounded suspected swept tantalizingly thatched thoughtfully thudding tidbit tightening tolman tourist tracy trekking unmistakable uphill upright urged velvet vengeful warily warned weathered welford welling wethers whiskery wickering wobble wonderingly worship yawned