Title - My Father's Dragon Author: Gannett, Ruth Stiles Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Elmer Elevator seeks to rescue a poor baby dragon who is being used by a group of lazy wild animals to ferry them across the river on Wild Island. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 944 3.5 730 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 70 Total # of Words 1861 # of Different Words 556 Ave Word/.Sent 18 Hi Freq occurs 1366 73.4% # of Hi freq words 248 44.6% % of Long Sentences 43 Low Freq occurs 65 3.5% # of Low freq words 39 7% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concept: Fanciful Chapters Headings Features Simple Plot First Person Topics Dragons *Fictional Ideas/Charac Low Frequency Words borrowed cargo cellar comb compass cranberry dependable elevator extremely furnace inconvenient jackknife knapsack knots label lollipops lowered magnifying miserable obliged pantry particularly passengers patient plank practically provided punctual queerest rude sailor sailors saucer suggesting tangerina uncomfortable watchman whipped younger