Title - Animals in Danger Author: Catala, Ellen Publisher: Troll Associates Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Presents five animals whose habitats have been reduced by human intervention. Inform Informational RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 657 3.0 670 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 1057 # of Different Words 403 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 659 62.3% # of Hi freq words 150 37.2% % of Long Sentences 4.4 Low Freq occurs 62 5.9% # of Low freq words 41 10.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Simple graphics supplementary to text comprehension Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Formal Captions Features Topics Whales *Animals Animals: Endangered Tigers Bears Low Frequency Words consumers endangered environment extinct future grizzlies grizzly grove habitats handmade healthy illegal illegally increasing ivory jaguar jaguars jewelry leathery lowlands luckily metric national newborn poachers population reasons rwandu scaly soars sources spiky stalks survive survived swamps twentieth uganda usable worth yellowstone