Title - Heat Wave Author: Ketteman, Helen Publisher: Walker and Company Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre What happens when a heat wave descends on the family farm? Why, the corn stalks turn into popcorn in the fields, flowers pluck themselves and hide under the porch, and the cows jump so much from the hot air that they churn their own milk into butter, that's what! . Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 748 3.2 690 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 1025 # of Different Words 417 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 658 64.2% # of Hi freq words 158 37.9% % of Long Sentences 7.9 Low Freq occurs 45 4.4% # of Low freq words 41 9.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concept: Fanciful Features First Person Topics Temperature *Weather Nonsense Farms Animals: Farm Low Frequency Words affected churned commotion drowned flocking freed harvest herded hollered horizon hosed knit mercury milked milking miscalculated miserable oatmeal ourselves paddled pasture pickups plucked resist rippled section shovels shrinking singe snagged sprouted squirmed stirred sweaters thawed thermometer thinker trough vane whiff yeast