Title - Crinkleroot's Guide to Walking in Wild Places Author: Arnosky, Jim Publisher: Aladdin Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Who is the best guide for a walk in the woods? Crinkleroot, of course! Anyone born in a tree and raised by bees must know a lot about walking in wild places. Entertain Narrative RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 782 3.3 700 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 43 Total # of Words 1236 # of Different Words 543 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 732 59.2% # of Hi freq words 192 35.4% % of Long Sentences 9.5 Low Freq occurs 106 8.6% # of Low freq words 82 15.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Oral/Natural Features First Person Topics *Science *Plants Nature Forests Insects Low Frequency Words accidentally actual alight boulders carries cinnamon clovers constant crawling crevices dandelion debris deserve discolored disease ebony fern ferns footed forelegs fragrant glossy greenery groin hayscented hollow host hosts invading ivy lawns leafed likely littered lyme maidenhair miniature minnows motion mowed mushrooms nestled numerous organisms outing oval patches poisonous polluted precautions provoke repellent resist roadsides scarlet seedling seize sensitive shaded shallow shedded shown silhouettes snakeskin sparkling sparrow spleenwort sumac sumacs swat tangled thickets toothed tread tweezers various wasp wears weedy windblown woodland wrists