Title - The Shepherd and the Fairy Author: Harryman, William Publisher: Reading A-Z Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Readers will enjoy this rags-to-riches-to-rags Corsican folktale about a young man who wins the love of a magical fairy. She makes him wealthy with her wishes, but he succumbs to the temptation of wanting a better love and more worldly goods. In the end, he is left with nothing. Entertain Fairy Tales RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 522 2.8 640 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 23 Total # of Words 875 # of Different Words 331 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 578 66.1% # of Hi freq words 137 41.4% % of Long Sentences 2.9 Low Freq occurs 42 4.8% # of Low freq words 31 9.4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Inferences: Some implications Concept: Fanciful Additional activities Features Storybook Language Topics Magic Fairies Greed *Fictional Ideas/Charac Low Frequency Words carriage content coy drawn embarrassed gracefully grateful handsome happiest happiness herding hesitated honored humble ma'am marriage moments practical radiant reining scornfully shepherd shepherd's shimmered smock sparrow startled surrounded threadbare wildflowers winged