Title - Heart of a Snowman Author: Kuryla, Mary-Eugene Yelchin Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre So begins an adventure that leads Owen to a magical place where curious animals study his snowman piece by piece in an attempt to remake a perfect snowman. But in the end, it is Owen who supplies the one thing they need the most. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 561 2.9 650 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 30 Total # of Words 1384 # of Different Words 465 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 894 64.6% # of Hi freq words 191 41.1% % of Long Sentences 3.1 Low Freq occurs 67 4.8% # of Low freq words 47 10.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Topics Temperature *Weather Snowmen Learning Hearts Low Frequency Words abruptly barbaric comfy conveyor destruction disappointed ejected gaped hailed hauling hovering hunched improved knitting loudspeaker meanwhile melty microscope nature ohh ourselves outraged owens powdery puffin retrieved revealed scarf scarves shrugged shuffling soot spite steadily temperatures thrust tweezing uncover unknotting unmaking vessel walrus walruses warmth woolies woven wrapping