Title - Great Black Heroes: Five Brave Explorers Author: Hudson, Wade Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre This book contains stories about five black American explorers, from childhood to adulthood, and how they came to be explorers. Inform Informational RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1471 4.3 820 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 25 Total # of Words 1852 # of Different Words 603 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 1100 59.4% # of Hi freq words 200 33.2% % of Long Sentences 3 Low Freq occurs 169 9.1% # of Low freq words 103 17.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Inferences: Some implications Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Formal Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Character traits Integral Setting - Historical Topics Dreams *History Astronauts African Americans Foreign Country Native Americans Low Frequency Words acres adventures apalachen busiest captors caster ceremony certificate circa companions contribution courage diseases dorantes dusable dusable's eastern educated escaped eschikago esteban esteban's expedition extremely folklore founder frenchman frontiersman frontiersmen general governor guide haiti heroes humid illinois kinzie kittihawa lalime language languages legend louisiana luckily magnificent maldonaldo michigan midwest mississippi missouri montana montreal morocco mosquitoes nevada nowhere obey officially pacific peace peoria pierce pointe poisoned potowatomi prisoner prisoners proven recognized refused registered restless route runaway seaman seaport sears seekers selected settlement sierra slavery smokehouses southwest spaniards starvation supplies survived survivors suzzanne swamps swarms territory traders trappers unfriendly vaca warriors wisdom witness worth wrecked