Title - Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm Author: Nolen, Jerdine Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Harvey Potter was a very strange fellow indeed. He was a farmer but not like any farmer you've ever met. He didn't grow corn, okra, or tomatoes. Harvey Potter grew balloons. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 745 3.2 690 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 29 Total # of Words 1287 # of Different Words 456 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 869 67.5% # of Hi freq words 196 43% % of Long Sentences 10 Low Freq occurs 77 6% # of Low freq words 55 12.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Inferences: Some implications Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Concept: Fanciful Features Character traits Mood/tone First Person Dialect/Accents Topics Toys *Plants Magic Farms Gardens/Gardening *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words account actual admiring bloomin bobbin' commenced confide conjure cropped fellow floatin glory glued government halloween halt hankering harvested holler hollered hoping indebted inspected knowed lemonade maple mayfield methods mounds nighttime nothin okra ole orangey overalls partner pleasin pockets potter potter's prettiest pricked resist riled screechin' sot suppertime sycamore unknown wheezle whooped whoopin would've yellin yonder