Title - Grandfather Tang's Story Author: Tompert, Ann Publisher: Candlewick Press Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Drawing on a Chinese form of storytelling with seven shapes cut from a square of paper, the author recounts the tale of two fox fairies. Entertain Folk Tales RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 643 3.0 670 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 26 Total # of Words 1347 # of Different Words 424 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 807 59.9% # of Hi freq words 164 38.7% % of Long Sentences 4.2 Low Freq occurs 53 3.9% # of Low freq words 37 8.7% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Concept: Fanciful Features Retelling of story/fable/legend Difficult names Topics Shapes Changes Storytelling Innovation Designs Differences *Animals Foreign Country Grandparents Imagination Low Frequency Words amusing charged chorus churned discourage edged fairies forged lashed lashing mended moments peered pierce plunged plunging rivalry scrambled seize shrunk smoothing spied spike spiked sprang stung swelled tang tangram toothed tragic transformed twitched urged wedge whipped whiskers