Title - Squawk to the Moon, Little Goose
Author: Preston, Edna Mitchell
Publisher: Viking Press

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
Little Goose is spreading the word that the fox has swallowed the moon. Entertain Fantasy
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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207 2.0 470
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 25 Total # of Words 709 # of Different Words 167
Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 448 63.2% # of Hi freq words 74 44.3%
% of Long Sentences 2.8 Low Freq occurs 13 1.8% # of Low freq words 6 3.6%
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
Features
Topics
Sky
Storytelling
Credibility
Foxes
Imagination
*Feelings, Behaviors
Night
Birds
Low Frequency Words
confound goslings meadow nightshirt spanked swallowed waddled