Title - A Single Shard Author: Park, Linda Sue Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Tree-ear is an orphan boy in a 12th-century Korean village renowned for its ceramics. When he accidentally breaks a delicate piece of pottery, he volunteers to work to pay for the damage. Putting aside his own dreams, Tree-ear resolves to serve the master potter by embarking on a difficult and dangerous journey, little knowing that it will change his life forever. Entertain Adventure RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2366 5.6 950 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 52 Total # of Words 3473 # of Different Words 1048 Ave Word/.Sent 14 Hi Freq occurs 2472 71.2% # of Hi freq words 404 38.5% % of Long Sentences 23.8 Low Freq occurs 251 7.2% # of Low freq words 215 20.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Chapters Features Character traits Character development Integral Setting - Cultural/Regional Simple Plot Difficult names Foreign words Topics Work Determination *Careers *Life Styles Poverty Low Frequency Words abandoned access achieved advice approached arid avail beckoning beggar bowing brushy bulging buyer calculated castoff cautiously celadon ceramics collectors companion complied confidence consequence consistency cowered cumbersome curled curve curved curves curving dampened decision deftly delicate deserves despair dignity disappointed discussion disliked displeased doubt droning earthenware easygoing eaves edging emboldened emerged emperor exquisite features fetched foothills foraging formal fortune fullness furrowed garner gathering glazed glean gourd graceful gracefully grooves growth gruel guarded halted harvested height hobbled hoisted honorable housekeeping hundredth hungered imitated impatience impudence inscribed inspected invisible jealously keen kilns kindly knowledge lacks levels lidded location longed marrow mattered melon melon's minded miracle mock moments monk monks motion mountainside mushroom mutter nature neared noisily oafish oblivious outlived paralyzed patience paulownia paused peered perusal pickings plainness plentiful poised pondered possessed possessions potter potter's pottery pouch preferred prized process prodded produce prosperity protruded pure purposefully raged realizing recent recently rectangular refused region reject requiring response reveal ribbed riverbank rounded route routine royal rubbish rue ruefully satisfied seaside season's secrecy series shallow shared shelves shill shown shriveled sickness sluggardly songdo squatted stirring strode structure suntanned surely surrounding survive syllables symbol symmetrical symmetry temporary thieves tidy tidying tilted unable undecorated underside unglazed unworthy upward urchin villagers virtue ware wealthy whereupon widened width windowless wooded workshop worth woven wrestled wrinkled younger