Title - Key To The Treasure Author: Parish, Peggy Publisher: Yearling Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre While spending the summer on their grandparents' farm, a trip of children -- Liza, Bill, and Ted unravel a series of coded clues that solve a family mystery, as they decode secret messages left many years before by their great-great-grandfather. Entertain Mystery RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 810 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 30 Total # of Words 2777 # of Different Words 655 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 2137 77% # of Hi freq words 318 48.5% % of Long Sentences 3.1 Low Freq occurs 51 1.8% # of Low freq words 37 5.6% 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 Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Chapters Features Character traits Simple Plot Topics Puzzles Mystery Problem Solving Low Frequency Words amused borrow clamoring deerskin fashioned feathered ferocious gran's kneel laundry mantel motioned object practically properly pulpy recognized ridden roberts rounded satisfied sewed shield shudder situation sketch sketches stickler studied terribly terrific tidied torrents triplets weird whereabouts woodshed