Title - I Fly Hot Air Balloons Author: Lester, Kathie Publisher: Reading A-Z Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Readers will read about how hot-air balloons fly and how the big balloons are steered. Readers will read about hot-air balloons in an interview format with balloonist Dan Saul. Inform Informational RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 242 2.1 500 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 16 Total # of Words 394 # of Different Words 165 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 213 54.1% # of Hi freq words 58 35.2% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 8 2% # of Low freq words 8 4.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Unconventional format Dialog: Two speakers Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Oral/Natural Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Captions Table of Contents Glossary Index Additional activities Features Present Tense Topics *Transportation Low Frequency Words fuel heights introduction mississippi nylon oxygen satellites scenery