Title - Digging Up Dinosaurs Author: Aliki Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Long ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Then, suddenly, they died out. For thousands of years, no one knew these giant creatures had ever existed. Then people began finding fossils -- bones and teeth and footprints that had turned to stone. Inform Informational RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 509 2.7 640 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 24 Total # of Words 810 # of Different Words 327 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 511 63.1% # of Hi freq words 133 40.7% % of Long Sentences 1.1 Low Freq occurs 38 4.7% # of Low freq words 29 8.9% Subjective Criteria Simple graphics supplementary to text comprehension Speech Bubbles Unconventional format Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Oral/Natural Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Captions Charts Features First Person Difficult names Topics Dinosaurs Extinction *Animals Animals: Prehistoric *Animal Life Low Frequency Words apatosaurus corythosaurus diary dinosauria draftsman extinct fossil iguanodon lighter museums numbered original patiently photographer plaster preserved quarries recently riverbanks rotting rubble shellac stegosaurus studied tissue triceritops tyrannosaurus uncovered wired