Title - Stone Fox Author: Gardiner, John Reynolds Publisher: HarperTrophy Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Little Willy hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dogsled race he enters. Entertain Adventure RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1005 3.6 740 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 24 Total # of Words 1774 # of Different Words 564 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 1226 69.1% # of Hi freq words 256 45.4% % of Long Sentences 4 Low Freq occurs 48 2.7% # of Low freq words 38 6.7% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Table of Contents Chapters Features Character traits Integral Setting Integral Setting - Historical Cliff Hanger Topics Racing Dogs Money Snow *Animals Farms Grandparents *Life Styles Pets Relationships Responsibility Low Frequency Words concerned coop cure examination general gonna gotta greenest handsome harmonica harvest healthy hind inspected irrigation knelt knowing lester's ma'am medically mended object overly overworking owe palomino peacock proceeded scarecrow searchlight sickly sickness strongbox surrounded upward whisper wrinkled wrinkles