Title - All Creatures Great and Small Author: Herriot, James Publisher: St Martins Paperbacks Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Delve into the magical, unforgettable world of James Herriot, the world's most beloved veterinarian, and his menagerie of heartwarming, funny, and tragic animal patients. Entertain Classics RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 3516 7+ 1110 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 75 Total # of Words 3702 # of Different Words 1215 Ave Word/.Sent 13 Hi Freq occurs 2723 73.6% # of Hi freq words 456 37.5% % of Long Sentences 23.8 Low Freq occurs 376 10.2% # of Low freq words 318 26.2% 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 Prior Knowledge: Familiarity Sequence of Events: Chronological Mature concepts: With common experiences or clear fantasy Features Character traits Integral Setting Simple Plot First Person Foreign words Topics Work Challenges Doctors *Animals *Careers Low Frequency Words abdomen accepted ached acute advice aghast agonisingly agriculture alongside antiseptic applicants applied appointment arched artificial asphyxiated average babble bale bales bordered bristle burdened butcher byre calf's calves calving canula centre chaps cigarette cobbled cobbles colleague college colleges colonial commissure concentrate confident contentedly contractions countless coursed creature's cultivated cursed dam's darrowby decade deepening deference depressed destination dinsdale dinsdale's dinsdales disappearing dispersed dole doorless draught dreadful dullness eased ebbed embittered embryotomy employer enclosed enthusiasm equipment excellent exhaustion exploration expulsive eyed farmhouses farnon farrenen fellow fells fevered filth flexion flickering flit flurry footed fore formless furthest futility future gaping german gingerly glance glassy government gradual grasped grey grimy grocer grossly grovelled grunted hardened headlights heartless heather heaved hedges hedging heifer heights hell herriot horror hovered hulking hundredfold hundredth im image imagination immediately impressed impression inadequate incredible incredulous indifferent indulgently infection inferno inhale inserted instance instruments interview islands jerking knelt knowledge knowledgeable labour laced lapped lathered leaden leeward lifeline lighter lighting listondale livestock looped lubricating mainstay major massage mention methodically mingled miracle miserable moor morose motionless mournful movement mow mucus muscle muttering mutually naked nameless nasal nature neared neglect newly noose nowt numbing object observed occasions oesophagus offended operative ought overall painfully palms panic papillae paralysis passengers patient pelvis penetrating pennines pent phenomenon pimpled pleasure plodded presentation pressure pressures principals pringle profession promontories prophet prospective provides qualified queue reckon regarded reluctantly repaid repel repelling resolving respiration retired rickety rough ruddy sage sandpaper satisfaction sawing scrabbling sensation settling sheer shipyards siegfried situations sizzling slaughter sleek sleepily slog sluggishly smoky snare snuffling society socket sparkling speeches spotless startled steadily stimulant straightening strewn stripped suited summits superior surgeon surrounding sweat sweating swept swollen tamped tearing tension tepid terrified teuton thrust tobacco tolling towards trachea traction transformation trek trickled trocharised twang twitch unbearable uncomfortably undefeated undeveloped undiminished unemployed unexpected unlucky unpretentious unseeing vacant valuable veterans veterinary vicious visible vision wan weakness wearily whipped whisky womb worth wriggle