Title - A Weed is a Flower Author: Aliki Publisher: Prentice-Hall Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Brief text and pictures present the life of George Washington Carver, born a slave, who became a scientist and devoted his entire life to helping the South improve its agriculture. Entertain Biographies/Auto RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 871 3.4 710 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 32 Total # of Words 1280 # of Different Words 451 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 826 64.5% # of Hi freq words 167 37% % of Long Sentences 6.8 Low Freq occurs 51 4% # of Low freq words 40 8.9% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Character traits Integral Setting - Historical Topics *Plants Inventions/Inventors Gardens/Gardening *Technology & Progress Low Frequency Words advice agriculture bulged college colleges despair devotion discouraged earnest future harming hatred healthy honored institute kidnapping laboratory laundry linoleum livelihood missouri mock negroes neighbors ordinary outstanding patched presidents products raising sauces schoolmates seymour shaving shone snatched sought throughout tuskegee wandered