Title - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Author: Rowling, J.K. Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Harry Potter has no idea how famous he is. His miserable aunt and uncle are terrified Harry will learn that he's really a wizard, just as his parents were. Harry finds himself drawn deep inside a mystical world he never knew existed and closer to his own noble destiny. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1819 4.7 870 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 61 Total # of Words 3383 # of Different Words 934 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 2444 72.2% # of Hi freq words 388 41.5% % of Long Sentences 16.5 Low Freq occurs 209 6.2% # of Low freq words 144 15.4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concept: Fanciful Sequence of Events: Mostly chronological Features Character traits Complex plot Flashback Difficult names Foreign words Topics Family Low Frequency Words admiring albus amuse angrily anxious approve astounding beefy calmly casually chortled cigarette concentrate contrary craning dedalus determined dialing diggle distinctly downpour downright drawn dudley dudley's dumbledore dundee dursley dursley's dursleys earmuffs emerald enraged excitedly eyed faltered fashion flinched four's gazed getups glance glumly gossiped grunnings grunted handkerchief heavily heeled hollow hoping horribly imagination imagining impatiently improve involved irritably judging lighter madam markings mcgonagall mcgonagall's mcguffin mention mouthed muggle muggles mustache muttered mysterious nation's neighbors nephew nervously newscaster nighttime ninth noble noticing oddly opinion passersby pavement peculiar peered persuade petunia phoning piercing pinpricks pomfrey potter potter's precious privet pursed quiver realize rejoice related ruffled rummaging rumor rumors secretary seized sensible severe showers sideways sleepiness sounding sparkling spectacles statue stern stiffly strangely stunt suggest surely survive swapping swept tabby tawny twitched tyke unable unblinkingly undursleyish unsticking unwelcome viewers voldemort voldemort's watchers weatherman whisper whisperers wrestled yawned