Title - Thinking Big
Author: Saxon, Victoria - Annie Auerbach
Publisher: Advance Publishers

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
Dot tries to wait for her wings to grow in, and learns to think big! Entertain Fantasy
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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520 2.7 640
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 20 Total # of Words 1018 # of Different Words 381
Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 650 63.9% # of Hi freq words 168 44.1%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 38 3.7% # of Low freq words 26 6.8%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Dialog: Two speakers
Dialog: Broken dialogue
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Many descriptive words
Sentences: Multiple phrases
Text structure: Story/Poem
Inferences: Some implications
Concept: Fanciful
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Growth/Growing
Dance/Dancing
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Low Frequency Words
antennae atta collected colony glimmer gonna immediately interrupted invention inventions
luckily meanies outsmart overheard patient riverbeds rough scrambled season shortly
squish squished stalk sternly urged weakly