| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Unable to fall asleep one night, Harold uses his purple crayon to create his very own bedtime fairy tale, complete with castles, fairies, flying carpets, and an enchanted garden.
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Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 384 |
2.4 |
600 |
Amazon
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| RDQ based on a maximum of 3000 words |
Levels are suggested levels based on RDQ, not official levels |
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| Sentences |
Total Words |
Different Words |
| Max Word/Sent |
23 |
Total # of Words |
1000 |
# of Different Words |
341 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
10 |
Hi Freq occurs |
659 |
65.9% |
# of Hi freq words |
154 |
45.2% |
| % of Long Sentences |
4.3 |
Low Freq occurs |
39 |
3.9% |
# of Low freq words |
28 |
8.2% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: High support |
| Dialog: Simple |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Oral/Natural |
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| Topics |
| Witches |
| Drawing |
| Castles |
| Gardens/Gardening |
| *Arts & Crafts |
| Kings/Queens |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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amazingly |
brandishing |
doubt |
drawn |
dukes |
earls |
embarrassed |
enchanted |
engines |
evidently |
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fairies |
gazed |
gorgeous |
handiest |
handsome |
height |
helpless |
invisible |
knitting |
luckily |
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mosquitoes |
mousehole |
preferred |
scarcely |
somewhat |
thrones |
tramping |
wand |
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