Title - Hibernation Author: Freed, Kira Publisher: Reading A-Z Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Readers will learn about animals that hibernate and how they stay alive during the winter months, and why they ibernate in the first place. Amazing pictures bring the text to life and draw young readers into the book. Inform Informational RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 307 2.2 550 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 20 Total # of Words 472 # of Different Words 178 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 210 44.5% # of Hi freq words 56 31.5% % of Long Sentences 2 Low Freq occurs 26 5.5% # of Low freq words 12 6.7% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Simple language Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Captions Table of Contents Glossary Index Headings Additional activities Features Present Tense Topics *Animals Low Frequency Words groundhogs hibernate hibernates hibernating hibernation migrate prairie predators scarce survive temperatures torpor