Title - Going Places Author: Garofano, Chuck Publisher: Reading A-Z Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Readers will see how many different things people can use to get around, from planes to trains to boats to horses. Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1 0.1 10 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 6 Total # of Words 48 # of Different Words 14 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 32 66.7% # of Hi freq words 5 35.7% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 0 0% # of Low freq words 0 0% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Caption/Simple 1 pattern excl open/close 0 - 1 word changes in a pattern Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Simple language Sentences: Captions/Simple Text structure: Oral/Natural Features Topics *Transportation Low Frequency Words