| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| A child imagines everything and everyone on her grandfather's farm settling down at nightfall, in a soothing bedtime story complemented by glowing, full-color artwork. |
Entertain |
Concept |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
|
Find at |
| 329 |
2.3 |
560 |
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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 |
28 |
Total # of Words |
231 |
# of Different Words |
126 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
12 |
Hi Freq occurs |
100 |
43.3% |
# of Hi freq words |
26 |
20.6% |
| % of Long Sentences |
33.3 |
Low Freq occurs |
20 |
8.7% |
# of Low freq words |
20 |
15.9% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Colorful, figurative |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
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| Topics |
| Sound/Sounds |
| Grandparents |
| Night |
| Places |
| Birds |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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arising |
bristles |
circling |
dusky |
gainst |
glimmer |
hickory |
hollow |
lantern |
lulled |
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meadow |
nestle |
outline |
rustle |
scarecrow |
silencing |
squint |
straying |
whippoorwill's |
wildflowers |
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