Title - Petunia Author: Duvoisin, Roger Publisher: Trumpet Club Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Petunia, the farm goose, finds a book -- and, deciding that if she owns a book she must be wise, dispenses hilariously mistaken advice to the other animals in the farmyard, but eventually realizes that just to carry a book under her arm does not provide her with wisdom until she reads it. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 663 3.1 670 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 55 Total # of Words 1340 # of Different Words 419 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 911 68% # of Hi freq words 176 42% % of Long Sentences 7.3 Low Freq occurs 57 4.3% # of Low freq words 35 8.4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Concept: Fanciful Features Character traits Integral Setting Topics Books Attitudes Learning Self Esteem *Animals Mistakes Helping Reading Low Frequency Words advice brooded candies comb coop dewdrops excitedly forlorn further gander goldenrod gracious hedgerow knowing meadow miaowed notch notches opinions petunia petunia's pliers precious shrunk singed soul spied strolling stubborn surely toothache truly wandered wisdom wobbly