| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| A farmer's young daughter shares numerous adventures with the dragon that she raises from infancy. After all, dragons just happen to be perfect friend material. |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 725 |
3.2 |
680 |
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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 |
27 |
Total # of Words |
1463 |
# of Different Words |
548 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
10 |
Hi Freq occurs |
1015 |
69.4% |
# of Hi freq words |
229 |
41.8% |
| % of Long Sentences |
11.1 |
Low Freq occurs |
63 |
4.3% |
# of Low freq words |
56 |
10.2% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Inferences: Some implications |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Many descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
| Concept: Fanciful |
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| Topics |
| Dragons |
| Farms |
| *Fictional Ideas/Charac |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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ablaze |
admiring |
barley |
beholden |
boohooed |
cured |
departing |
fanciful |
feller |
flabbergasted |
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glistened |
gourmet |
gout |
harvested |
healthy |
hovered |
imagined |
instant |
landmass |
li'l |
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magical |
meantime |
medicinal |
medicine |
minded |
muffled |
murdoch's |
notion |
opinions |
paced |
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particular |
perch |
poling |
potbellied |
potpies |
preferred |
profit |
puzzlement |
raising |
restaurants |
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runway |
samson |
shelling |
shovel |
sown |
squealed |
stillness |
strangeness |
swallow |
tain't |
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tarnation |
unknown |
varmints |
what'll |
wheelbarrow |
whimper |
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