Title - I Survived The Great Chicago Fire, 1871 Author: Tarshis, Lauren Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Oscar Starling never wanted to come to Chicago. But then Oscar find himself not just in the heart of the big city, but in the middle of a terrible fire. Entertain Historical Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1540 4.4 830 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 29 Total # of Words 3141 # of Different Words 1004 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 2212 70.4% # of Hi freq words 439 43.7% % of Long Sentences 4.3 Low Freq occurs 185 5.9% # of Low freq words 145 14.4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Chapters Mature concepts: With common experiences or clear fantasy Features Character traits Integral Setting - Historical Clear cause/effect Simple Plot Topics Cities *History Danger Fire Helping Disasters Tragedies Low Frequency Words aching acres apologetic baggage birch blur broiling brutal burping butcher cabdriver calluses chasing chugged chugging cinders commotion conductor curls depot distracted doubled doubtful doused drowned earless edges escaped exhausted expressions factly factories ferocious fiery firemen flaming fleet flickering fortune freckled freshen gangster gaslight glued gunfight gushed helpless honored hopeful illinois impressed innocent jolted kildair lapping laughter lied lingered lobby lugging lunged lurched lurked ma'am mansions manure marsh massive minnesota miserable mistaking morrow morrow's narrowing nightmare orphans otis outhouse outlaws panicked peered pleaded porter possession practically prairie prettiest prized project puke pumpers raggedy rainstorm readied reassuring redheaded refused relieved ricocheted robbery rough ruthless scenes schoolteacher scoured scrawny scurrying seared seasons sheriff sheriff's shovel shower sickened sidewalks slaughterhouses slouched smacked smokestacks smoothing smudged splatter sprawled starling stench strangely studio suitcases survived swarm swarmed sweat tavern tempted terrified territory thieves tinged vicious warehouses warned wasps whizzed wisps wrinkling