Title - The Enormous Potato
Author: Davis, Aubrey
Publisher: Scholastic

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
The Enormous Potato begins with a farmer who plants an eye -- a potato eye. It grows and grows into an enormous potato. Harvest time comes, but the potato is so big that the farmer can't pull it out. Entertain Fantasy
RDQ
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149 1.6 190 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 13 Total # of Words 362 # of Different Words 83
Ave Word/.Sent 4 Hi Freq occurs 169 46.7% # of Hi freq words 29 34.9%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 0 0% # of Low freq words 0 0%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Simple phrases
Text structure: Oral/Natural
Concept: Fanciful
Features
Topics
Size
*Plants
Cooperation
Food
Gardens/Gardening
Helping
Low Frequency Words