Title - If You Lived in Colonial Times Author: McGovern, Ann Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre A different time... a different place. What if you were there? If you lived in colonial times, hat kind of clothes would you wear? Would you go to school? What would happen if you didn't behave? This book tells you what it was like to live in the New England colonies during the years 1565 to 1776. Entertain Historical Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 934 3.5 730 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 2650 # of Different Words 683 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 1955 73.8% # of Hi freq words 279 40.8% % of Long Sentences 2.7 Low Freq occurs 114 4.3% # of Low freq words 69 10.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Simple graphics, not necessary to text Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Formal Maps/Key Time Lines Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Table of Contents Headings Features Integral Setting - Historical Topics *History Pilgrims *Schools & Education School Low Frequency Words aesop's birch birchbark bitefinger blackboards cider college colonial colonies colony cruel dame dunce eyeglass flax furry goathair goldenrod grocery handwriting hornbook horsehair idle kerchiefs knit knitting knob linen lobsters logwood loom lord's maple medicine meetinghouse pickled playpens poems pokeberry prayers primer religious rhymes robinson sabbath schoolbook schoolbooks schoolboys schoolmaster sermons service services seventy shared spilling squash stews stirred stockings storybooks sweeten syrup thread tithing trencher watchman wriggle writeing younger