Title - How I Learned Geography Author: Shulevitz, Uri Publisher: Reading A-Z Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre A boy and his family are living in poverty in a strange country. Food is scarce, so when the boy's father brings home a map instead of bread for supper, at first the boy is furious. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 977 3.6 740 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 36 Total # of Words 497 # of Different Words 279 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 282 56.7% # of Hi freq words 93 33.3% % of Long Sentences 18.2 Low Freq occurs 42 8.5% # of Low freq words 41 14.7% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Colorful, figurative Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Mature concepts: With common experiences or clear fantasy Features Character traits Integral Setting First Person Difficult names Topics Learning *Geography Imagination *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words announced apologetically approached delicious devastated enthusiasm envied exotic fascinated fukuoka fukuyama furious groves hunger incantation mangoes meager misery miyazaki morsel nagayama okazaki omsk papayas pennsylvania rhyme rooftops savored scarce smacking sounding steppes surrounded takaoka tomsk transported transylvania triumphantly wondrous writer zillions