Title - Picture for Harold's Room, A Author: Johnson, Crockett Publisher: Harper & Row Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Harold needs a picture for his bedroom wall. So he takes his purple crayon and begins to create a whole new world around him. But then he notices he has gotten very small -- half the size of a daisy! Only a very clever artist can find his way home now. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 244 2.1 500 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 20 Total # of Words 550 # of Different Words 215 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 377 68.5% # of Hi freq words 95 44.2% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 6 1.1% # of Low freq words 6 2.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Simple Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Concept: Fanciful Features Character traits Topics Size Drawing *Arts & Crafts Imagination Low Frequency Words gulls lighthouse liner moonlight sailors spouting