Title - A Girl Named Helen Keller Author: Lundell, Margo Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The story of Helen Keller, a blind and deaf child of great courage who brought hope to other people in the world. Entertain Biographies/Auto RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 530 2.8 640 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 24 Total # of Words 1259 # of Different Words 401 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 809 64.3% # of Hi freq words 178 44.4% % of Long Sentences 1.1 Low Freq occurs 15 1.2% # of Low freq words 14 3.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Chapters Features Topics Overcoming Learning Health Blindness Deafness *Human Body & Health Low Frequency Words college comb graduated graham healthy honors illness massachusetts miracle miracles presidents radcliffe servants soul