Title - I Am Martin Luther King, Jr. Author: Meltzer, Brad Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre As a child, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shocked by the terrible and unfair way African American people were treated. When he grew up, he decided to do something about it. Entertain Biographies/Auto RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 966 3.6 730 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 35 Total # of Words 2347 # of Different Words 705 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 1762 75.1% # of Hi freq words 310 44% % of Long Sentences 8.5 Low Freq occurs 141 6% # of Low freq words 103 14.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Speech Bubbles Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Oral/Natural Captions Inserts/Side bars Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Character traits Complex Problem/Solution First Person Topics Changes *History Right/Wrong Cause/Effect Determination Heroes Fair play/Fairness Freedom American History Low Frequency Words absolutely activists amusement angriest article banister boycott brutality college community companies competition congress conscience contagious content convinced courage crusade dc demonstration determined disobedience elevators enraged estimated eventually exhaustion filming flimsy freedom funtown future gandhi gathering gonna governor heroes hoses ignore injustice january judged kindness magazines mahatma margins massive method methods mistakenly moments montgomery moral mountainside movement nation nation's national nobel nonviolence nonviolent opposite organized overcome pamphlet peace peaceful peacefully playgrounds podium poverty president protests public published randolph refuse refused religious resistance response restrooms reverend righteous selma seminary separate society speech speeches surest terribly thoreau threat transportation treatment unsung violence whites yoki youngest