Title - Garden of Dreams Author: Wainwright, Richard M. Publisher: Family Life Publishing Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The inhabitants of Esperanza Street, from many different cultural backgrounds, come together to fulfill Tony's dream of beautifying the neighborhood with a garden. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1388 4.2 810 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 33 Total # of Words 3208 # of Different Words 1002 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 2236 69.7% # of Hi freq words 438 43.7% % of Long Sentences 6.5 Low Freq occurs 207 6.5% # of Low freq words 156 15.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Chapters Features Character traits Integral Setting Simple problem/solution Simple Plot Difficult names Foreign words Topics *Plants Flowers Cooperation Cities *Community Friendship Gardens/Gardening Neighborhood *Habitats/Environments Low Frequency Words aced admonished advisor angrily announced annuals applauded approached approval aquarium bordered boulder boulders bouquet carnations challenge cocozza cocozza's college comer constant constantine contented corridor curious demetrious disappointments disturbed edges education emigrated encouraged esperanza everest exposing fashioned ferocious fertilizer filakas fortunate frequently freshening gardening general germinated glancing gorgeous gotcha graduation granite guardian hammered happier harvests horticultural hustle immediately immigrants increased infectious inhabitant initial intact intently interrupted joining kalimara kerriokas knelt lazily lessened loam lulling magazines marigold meager medium mini mustache nature navy neighbor neighbors newly occasional official olympus outlining particular partner patched paused payment peat pelting perennials personal petunias professional project propelled properly purchased quartz raging rainstorm recently recognize rectangular replant replanting required restaurants rotting scarcity science seedlings seeming seriously seventy shabbiest shallow shelves shoveling shovels snapdragons sparkling specific speculated spotless streamed stroll studied styrofoam survive survived symbol tattered tchaikovsky terraced terraces terrific testified thoughtfully thunderheads trampled unearthed unwelcome violent watcher watered whiskered whistled yasu younger zinnia