Title - I am Jim Henson Author: Meltzer, Brad Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Jim Henson, was always dreaming up something new, and always expressing his belief in the goodness of people. Henson used his talents to help create two of the most beloved programs in television history: The Muppet Show and Sesame Street. Entertain Biographies/Auto RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 781 3.3 700 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 33 Total # of Words 2084 # of Different Words 675 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 1513 72.6% # of Hi freq words 293 43.4% % of Long Sentences 6.5 Low Freq occurs 119 5.7% # of Low freq words 87 12.9% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Sophisticated graphics supplementing text Speech Bubbles Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Oral/Natural Features Foreign words Topics Puppets Practice Television Comedy Humor *Entertainment & Fun Performing Low Frequency Words adventures aired announced approve audience burrell chaos comedians comedies comedy commercials cooney despite encouraged entertaining episode eventually expressions fashioned fellas foreign foundation ganz glued grackle grief grover halves henson humor imagination imagining inspire interact inventing invention juhl kermit kooky kovacs kukla locations magical maury mccarthy mississippi muppet muppets nowadays object opportunities opportunity ordinary osc partner performance performed performer personalities pong producers projects promote props puppeteer puppetry raposo recreate sahlin sesame sewed sideways songwriters specially stations technology that'll theater thread tilted turban turquoise variety ventriloquist wanna worldwide yoda