Title - Once Upon a Time Author: Prater, John - Vivian French Publisher: Candlewick Press Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre A little boy goes about his usual activities, unfazed by the colorfully depicted characters from favorite nursery rhymes and folktales -- such as three pigs, a precarious egg, and a girl in red -- who scurry through his day acting out their stories. Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 227 2.0 490 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 12 Total # of Words 159 # of Different Words 108 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 72 45.3% # of Hi freq words 34 31.5% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 4 2.5% # of Low freq words 4 3.7% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Concept: Fanciful Features Rhyming Topics Witches Changes Giants Fathers Actions Observation Family Imagination Movement/Motion *Fictional Ideas/Charac *Feelings, Behaviors Nursery Rhymes Low Frequency Words laundry's prowling why's yawn