Title - Igraine the Brave Author: Funke, Cornelia Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The daughter of two magicians, Igraine wants nothing more than to be a knight, and when their castle is attacked by a treacherous neighbor her parents turn themselves into pigs, it's up to Igraine to put things right. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2361 5.6 950 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 62 Total # of Words 3625 # of Different Words 1023 Ave Word/.Sent 12 Hi Freq occurs 2585 71.3% # of Hi freq words 429 41.9% % of Long Sentences 18.8 Low Freq occurs 316 8.7% # of Low freq words 206 20.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Colorful, figurative Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concept: Fanciful Chapters Sequence of Events: Chronological Mature concepts: With common experiences or clear fantasy Features Character traits Integral Setting - Historical Simple problem/solution Simple Plot Difficult names Topics Giants Magic Dragons Castles Knights *Fictional Ideas/Charac Low Frequency Words accepted adjusted adventures ambition ancestors angrily anxiously armory baroness barons barricade battlements bertram biscuits boredom calmly cannonballs castellan casting cautiously choosy chronicles clambered clinking conjure conjured courtyard crawling crouched cursed darkrock delicious devoured distressing dove's drawbridge dreadfully dukes edible elegance enchanted enthusiastic exhausted eyed failures fencing fetched furry future garde gargoyles gateway glance glances gloomily gnawed greats guarded gulp headache hoarsely horribly horseman horserace igraine igraine's incantations indistinctly infested ingredients irritation knelt knight knights lamorak lances lashing leathery ledge leftovers leisure likely lilies loveliness luckily magical magician magicians manes marshy mead meadows meanwhile melisande mewed mewing mingling miracle mistress moat murmured muttered narrowing nephew nested noble nostrils nots occurred oiled omen osmund overnight parried patiently peaceful peered pelleas personally pimpernel polishing portraits potions pouring powders preening protection prowl rafters relish reproachfully rescuing respect revenge rooftops royal saucepan sawed scaly scaredy scent scornful scurried serpent shelled shields shimmering shoals shone sideways siege silvery sisyphus sisyphus's sleepily smudged spicy spidery squarely squealed squire stables staircase stalked startled stirred stony suits surrounded survived swallow swallows sweating sword swords symbols tastier terribly terrifying threatening tidier tomcat tongues torrents tournament tournaments treading underside unfortunately unicorn unicorn's unicorns unwelcome upright utmost visor wandered weapons whiskers widened wildflowers windowsill woolly workshop yawned yawning