Title - The Art Lesson Author: dePaola, Tomie Publisher: Trumpet Club Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Tommy wants to be an artist and can't wait to take art lessons in school, but having learned to be creative in drawing pictures at home, is dismayed when he finds the art lesson there much more regimented. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 436 2.5 620 Amazon 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 35 Total # of Words 1028 # of Different Words 365 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 634 61.7% # of Hi freq words 166 45.5% % of Long Sentences 8.9 Low Freq occurs 36 3.5% # of Low freq words 21 5.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Inferences: Some implications Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Simple Plot Topics Colors Drawing Artists *Arts & Crafts *Feelings, Behaviors *Schools & Education New School Low Frequency Words bowers cartwheels chalk collected cousins grocery irish kindergarten landers monitor photograph pilgrim pouring powders practiced property smock sweater turquoise unfinished wrinkly