| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| A retelling of a Chinese folktale about a dragon, a phoenix, the Queen of Heaven and a very special pebble. |
Entertain |
Folk Tales |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 182 |
1.8 |
310 |
Amazon
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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 |
14 |
Total # of Words |
236 |
# of Different Words |
99 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
7 |
Hi Freq occurs |
110 |
46.6% |
# of Hi freq words |
27 |
27.3% |
| % of Long Sentences |
0 |
Low Freq occurs |
11 |
4.7% |
# of Low freq words |
3 |
3% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Speech Bubbles |
| Dialog: Two speakers |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Oral/Natural |
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| Topics |
| Magic |
| Dragons |
| Birds |
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