Title - Franklin Forgets Author: Bourgeois, Paulette Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Franklin asks to tend Mr. Mole's garden for a few days, convincing Mr. Mole that he's grown up enough to handle the job. But Franklin forgets, and by the time he remembers, the garden is almost ruined. Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 384 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 21 Total # of Words 810 # of Different Words 327 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 469 57.9% # of Hi freq words 139 42.5% % of Long Sentences 0.8 Low Freq occurs 14 1.7% # of Low freq words 12 3.7% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little 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 Simple Plot Topics Helping *Feelings, Behaviors Responsibility Low Frequency Words anxiously collected courage fault instructions responsibility shone shovel suppertime thoughtfully tidied wilted