Title - Bridge to Terabithia Author: Paterson, Katherine Publisher: HarperTrophy Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Join Jess and Leslie as they form an unlikely friendship and create the imaginary land of Terabithia. There they rule as king and queen, until a terrible tragedy occurs that helps Jess understand just how much he has learned from Leslie. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2229 5.3 930 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 81 Total # of Words 3472 # of Different Words 1054 Ave Word/.Sent 12 Hi Freq occurs 2547 73.4% # of Hi freq words 440 41.7% % of Long Sentences 19.2 Low Freq occurs 195 5.6% # of Low freq words 158 15% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Chapters Sequence of Events: Mostly chronological Features Character traits Character development Integral Setting Simple Plot Foreshadowing Dialect/Accents Metaphors Similes Topics Inclusion Challenges Death Secrets Drawing Forests Friendship Play/Playing Moving *Feelings, Behaviors Pretend Relationships Low Frequency Words ability ache allotted angrily announced anticipation assuring audience autoharp backwash baripity bongo bragger carriage chords concert crouched crud curving cymbals deadweight decent delicately despised diamond discarded discourage drizzly earle edmunds electrifying elementary ell enthusiasms equipment eyed fashion fellow floaty fridays goggle gonna gorgeous gotta grassless greenish grits guitar hauling hellhole hippie hopscotch hypocritical ignored jeans jogged jointed kinda knowledge ladies lark legged lightly lipsticked lollie lustre mattress milking millsburg miz more'n mouthful muddled muscle nauseatingly noisily noontime obediently olds ought overalls pandemonium paper's peace peacenik peculiar pettis plunked pouring pricked primly properly proverbial pudgy puny pure purse racket raising rattly recording rhythm rough rounded scalding schoolhouse scrambled screech section seventh shared shebang shoved shrugged shuttup sleepily slooching sloshed slurped snare soothingly sparkling spoonfuls squashed squinted squish strolled suburbs suckered suede sweating syllables tabletop tambourines tensed that'a thumping timmons timmonses toed triangles turner unexpected unhandy unjust vietnam vinyl waking warned watson whine whined whining whiskey worshiped wrestle wrinkled yanked yes'm