Title - Dragonwings Author: Yep, Laurence Publisher: HarperTrophy Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The story begins as eight-year-old Moon Shadow Lee journeys across the Pacific to join his proud and clever father at the family-owned laundry in San Francisco. Moon Shadow is eight years old when he sails from China to join his father, Entertain Historical Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1602 4.5 840 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 2084 # of Different Words 620 Ave Word/.Sent 21 Hi Freq occurs 1536 73.7% # of Hi freq words 244 39.4% % of Long Sentences 49.5 Low Freq occurs 120 5.8% # of Low freq words 99 16% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Chapters Headings Features Character traits Simple Plot Topics Travel/Traveling Cultures *History *Life Styles *Family & Friends Low Frequency Words appreciate beatings carries constantly crawling curious dangled debts demon demons dictation dirtying discouraged disease dowries dynasty emperor eventually fifties firsthand flush fortune gnarled guide hacked hardy harshness harvested heirlooms hosts invest kingdom lively livestock loneliness lungs lynched marvelous mastered meaningfully miserably moments nervously ninth nuisance ordinary ourselves overseas overworked paddies patience patient permanently phoenix pockets practically prayers pregnant properly realize reasons reckoning reel respect result satisfaction schoolmaster seedlings senseless separations settling shortly shown skyward slack soared spat squirmed stingy sunbeam swallow tang testimony tiniest torture transplanted treasured truly tuberculosis tudors understanding underwater unmarried upward uselessly wander warned wives wrist