Title - I am Benjamin Franklin Author: Meltzer, Brad Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. Entertain Biographies/Auto RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 968 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 36 Total # of Words 1891 # of Different Words 688 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 1303 68.9% # of Hi freq words 270 39.2% % of Long Sentences 7 Low Freq occurs 149 7.9% # of Low freq words 121 17.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Sophisticated graphics supplementing text Speech Bubbles Unconventional format Dialog: Multiple speakers Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Oral/Natural Inserts/Side bars Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Character traits Integral Setting First Person Topics Experiments *Science Innovation *History Government Independence American History US Constitution Discovery *Citizenship & Laws Low Frequency Words absorb achieve addition advice almanac almanak breakthrough brigade calendar chastity citizen cleanliness college colonies community congress constitution contagious continental controlled countless deborah decision declaration differing disagreements document documents dogood electricity eventually evident failures forecasts forge founding freedom frugal frugality future gazette government handwriting happiness haste healthy hoping humility image improve improved improving independence independent individual individually industry infinite informed installed instantly inventions inventor involve junto liberty major mastering mechanical moderation negative nowhere observed observing opinions opposite ourselves overtime paris pennsylvania philadelphia political positive prevented progress prove published pursuit rd resolution responsible revolution richard's sacred scientific scientist selected shelves siblings sincerity solutions staggering steeples strands studied subscription sweat symbol tailor theories throughout treaty undeniable virtue virtues vital watchmen wealthy writer younger youngest