Title - Gordon Finds His Way Author: Rice, Racheal Publisher: Reading A-Z Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Readers will read about a boy named Gordon who gets lost on the first day at his new school. He knows he is supposed to go to music class, but he can't remember how to get there. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 128 1.5 170 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 14 Total # of Words 179 # of Different Words 88 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 92 51.4% # of Hi freq words 38 43.2% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 6 3.4% # of Low freq words 2 2.3% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Simple language Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Topics *Schools & Education Low Frequency Words gordon gordon's