Title - The Pug Who Wanted to Be a Mermaid Author: Ryan, Anne Marie Publisher: Dallas Morning News Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Peggy the pug is going on vacation to the seaside! Her special friend Chloe is excited, too, and hopes that she’ll see a mermaid. But even though Chloe and Peggy search the beach, they can’t find a mermaid anywhere. Not wanting her friend to be disappointed, Peggy decides that she’ll just have to become a mermaid herself! Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1099 3.8 760 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 3060 # of Different Words 937 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 2166 70.8% # of Hi freq words 409 43.6% % of Long Sentences 5.5 Low Freq occurs 145 4.7% # of Low freq words 107 11.4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Table of Contents Chapters Features Topics Vacations *Family & Friends Pets Low Frequency Words announced armchairs biscuit bulging buoys cafe cafe's calendar carrier cartwheel certificate chloe chloe's chorused comfy constantly crouching curtains decent dismay documentary drawers dunes duvet enchanted excitedly exhausted flump flushed frantically fruity gasoline glued grumpily handing hind hollered hutch interrupting investigating kennel kindergarten leftover lolled luggage marshmallows mum's mushroom muttered neptune pleaded plush popcicles project reassure reassured recreation relieved reveal rounded rubes ruby ruby's sandcastles sauce scent scents science scoffed seagulls seaside shared shavings shelves shoving shrugged solar soundtrack sparkling squirming staggering stocked suitcases sundress surrounded survive swat sweetie swerved swimsuit terrier tousling twirling twitching underwater vanilla wandered whimpered whined whiskers whites widened windowsill wriggled wriggling yapped zach