| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Young readers will enjoy the sights and sounds of fall, as a family spends the day picking apples and pumpkins at the local orchard. |
Entertain |
Realistic Fiction |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 355 |
2.3 |
580 |
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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 |
34 |
Total # of Words |
740 |
# of Different Words |
299 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
11 |
Hi Freq occurs |
415 |
56.1% |
# of Hi freq words |
109 |
36.5% |
| % of Long Sentences |
14.9 |
Low Freq occurs |
24 |
3.2% |
# of Low freq words |
14 |
4.7% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Dialog: Simple |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Some Long/Complex |
| Text structure: Oral/Natural |
| Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social |
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| Topics |
| Trees |
| *Plants |
| Autumn |
| Seasons |
| Cooking |
| Food |
| Gardens/Gardening |
| *Home Arts & Food |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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applegate |
caramel |
delicious |
fashioned |
hayride |
lanterns |
macouns |
medium |
nina |
orchards |
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picker |
scott's |
scrambled |
shortening |
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