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The Paper Bag Princess

RDQ:	364	Max Word/Sent	24	Total Words	552		Diff Words	192
Lex	590	Ave Word/.Sent	12	Hi Freq occurs	317	57.4%	Hi freq	75	39.1%
AR	2.4	Long Sentences	6.7	Low Freq occurs	15	2.7%	Low freq	8	4.2%

Elizabeth was a beautiful princess. 
She lived in a castle and had expensive princess clothes. She was going to marry a prince named Ronald. Unfortunately, a dragon smashed her castle burned all her clothes with his fiery breath and carried off Prince Ronald. Elizabeth decided to chase the dragon and get Ronald back. She looked everywhere for something to wear but the only thing she could find that was not burnt was a paper bag. So she put on the paper bag and followed the dragon. He was easy to follow because he left a trail of burnt forests and horses' bones. Finally Elizabeth came to a cave with a large door that had a huge knocker on it. She took hold of the knocker and banged on the door. The dragon stuck his nose out of the door and said "Well a princess! I love to eat princesses but I have already eaten a whole castle today. I am a very busy dragon. Come back tomorrow." He slammed the door so fast that Elizabeth almost got her nose caught. Elizabeth grabbed the knocker and banged on the door again. The dragon stuck his nose out of the door and said "Go away. I love to eat princesses but I have already eaten a whole castle. I am a very busy dragon. Come back tomorrow." "Wait" shouted Elizabeth. "Is it true that you are the smartest and fiercest dragon in the whole world?" "Yes" said the dragon. "Is it true" said Elizabeth "that you can burn up ten forests with your fiery breath?" "Oh yes" said the dragon and he took a huge deep breath and breathed out so much fire that he burnt up fifty forests. "Fantastic" said Elizabeth and the dragon took another huge breath and breathed out so much fire that he burnt up one hundred forests. "Magnificent" said Elizabeth and the dragon took another huge breath but this time nothing came out. The dragon didn't even have enough fire left to cook a meatball. Elizabeth said "Dragon is it true that you can fly around the world in just ten seconds?" "Why yes" said the dragon and jumped up and flew all the way around the world in just ten seconds. He was very tired when he got back but Elizabeth shouted "Fantastic do it again!" So the dragon jumped up and flew around the whole world in just twenty seconds. When he got back he was too tired to talk and he lay down and went straight to sleep. Elizabeth whispered very softly "Hey dragon." The dragon didn't move at all. She lifted up the dragon's ear and put her head right inside. She shouted as loud as she could "Hey dragon!" The dragon was so tired he didn't even move. Elizabeth walked right over the dragon and opened the door to the cave. There was Prince Ronald. He looked at her and said"Elizabeth you are a mess! You smell like ashes your hair is all tangled and you are wearing a dirty old paper bag. Come back when you are dressed like a real princess." "Ronald" said Elizabeth "your clothes are pretty and your hair is very neat. You look like a real prince but you are a bum" They didn't get married after all.]]

Subjective Criteria

Illustrations: Some support

Dialog: Two speakers

Dialog: Broken dialogue

Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues

Language: Many descriptive words

Sentences: Multiple phrases

Text structure: Story/Poem

Inferences: Several Implications

Complexity: Several ideas - closely related

Concept: Fanciful

Features

Integral Setting - Historical

Simple Plot

Topic

Values

Tricking

Dragons

Castles

Princes/Princesses

Self Esteem

*Fictional Ideas/Charac

Low Frequency Words

breathed	burnt	fiercest	fiery	knocker
magnificent	tangled	unfortunately