Title - Fifty Famous People Author: Baldwin, James Publisher: Unknown Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre One of the best things to be said of the stories in this volume is that, although they are not biographical, they are about real persons who actually lived and performed their parts in the great drama of the world's history. Inform Informational RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1550 4.4 830 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 41 Total # of Words 3488 # of Different Words 836 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 2693 77.2% # of Hi freq words 375 44.9% % of Long Sentences 11.5 Low Freq occurs 180 5.2% # of Low freq words 105 12.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Many different ideas Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Table of Contents Chapters Headings Footnotes Features Topics Kindness Courage Helping *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words anxious banter bargain borrow cellar cleanest composition compositions coppers curtsied divisions dolt ettrick everett feeble fellow fellows fifes finney finney's fledged foolishly general gentleman gracefully grateful greenest grove halt hardin haste hazel heartily helpless homeward kindly landholder lantern lawyer lawyers libraries likely longfellow loveth maidens meadow moral morn morrow mow mowers neighbor nestlings o'er onward orator orators pastures pathway plainly pleasant poems poetry poets praise president primer prose pupil raging ravine ridden roadside roan rough schoolhouse schoolmates scotland shepherd shepherds sirrah slate sought speech statesman steepest stith strive sup surely thinker thorny towards trampled trout turmoil turnip urge verses volume watered whistles whiz whizzing wronged younger