Title - Horrible Harry Goes to Sea Author: Kline, Suzy Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Miss Mackle's class is learning about their ancestors, and everyone just found out that Ida's great-great grandmother sailed on the Titanic-and lived to tell about it. Miss Mackle decides to take the class on a riverboat ride to help them imagine what it was like to travel on the high seas. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1152 3.9 770 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 24 Total # of Words 3075 # of Different Words 874 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 2187 71.1% # of Hi freq words 379 43.4% % of Long Sentences 2.5 Low Freq occurs 137 4.5% # of Low freq words 94 10.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Chapters Headings Features Simple Plot Topics Field Trips Learning Generations Ships *Family & Friends *Schools & Education Relationships Low Frequency Words aboard allegiance ancestor's ancestors announced artillery blurted brochure brochures burrell bury calmly chanteys chaperones collected conversation cruises depression doubled earring empties encyclopedia fascinating ferry fleur further gangplank general giggling gilda guitar guy's heavier hollered immediately instruments interrupted israel jostle kidd's liberty librarian mackle markers mayflower menus michaelsen navy necklace oohed originals ourselves pacific passenger passengers permission persis pier pilgrims pith plank pledge porcelain president purse relatives relieved replicas resist reworded riverboat rummaged sailor schedule scrapbook secured sewed shrugged shuffled smithereens smokestacks sparkling spooger statue stepdad survivor telegrams titanic tombstones turkish unfolded verses wears yahoo