| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| The story of an incredible twosome that provides interest, suspense and word repetition. Gus is a law-abiding owl who teaches Sam to make words with his firefly light. Sam likes the words but soon is into mischief, writing "cold dogs" above a hot dog stand and nearly causing a riot by writing "free" above a movie theater. |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 231 |
2.0 |
490 |
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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 |
17 |
Total # of Words |
1221 |
# of Different Words |
212 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
5 |
Hi Freq occurs |
868 |
71.1% |
# of Hi freq words |
111 |
52.4% |
| % of Long Sentences |
0 |
Low Freq occurs |
1 |
0.1% |
# of Low freq words |
1 |
0.5% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Dialog: Two speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
| Concept: Fanciful |
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| Topics |
| *Feelings, Behaviors |
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