Title - Dinosaurs Before Dark Author: Osborne, Mary Pope Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Join Jack and Annie as they travel in the Magic Tree House back to the time of dinosaurs where they encounter all sorts of dinos from the terrifying T-Rex to the crowd-pleasing Triceratops. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 851 3.4 710 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 2274 # of Different Words 564 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 1531 67.3% # of Hi freq words 250 44.3% % of Long Sentences 0.2 Low Freq occurs 68 3% # of Low freq words 49 8.7% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Inferences: Some implications Concept: Fanciful Table of Contents Chapters Features Character traits Integral Setting - Historical Simple Plot Topics Time Trees Wishes Children Magic Dinosaurs Low Frequency Words absolutely calmly caption cautiously coasted com creature's curved elementary engraved ferns gazed gliding gripped grunted ignored incredibly kneeled knelt loped magnolia medal medallion monster's mutant neighbor's nudged peering pennsylvania pteranodon pteranodon's scientist scissors scrambled shield shoved sloping slung soared soaring spending stammered studied tilted triceratops volcanoes weighed weird whistling