Title - Stone Soup (McGovern) Author: McGovern, Ann Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre A clever young man tricks an old woman into believing that soup can be made from a stone. Entertain Classics RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 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 59 Total # of Words 934 # of Different Words 171 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 600 64.2% # of Hi freq words 78 45.6% % of Long Sentences 3.8 Low Freq occurs 6 0.6% # of Low freq words 3 1.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Several repetitions of phrases or refrains 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 Parody Topics Sharing Innovation Cooking Food Low Frequency Words barley onion tablecloth