Title - Lion King II Simba's Pride Author: Disney Artists Publisher: Disney Editions Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Disney's The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (Disney's Wonderful World of Reading) Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 706 3.1 680 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 27 Total # of Words 1230 # of Different Words 436 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 724 58.9% # of Hi freq words 174 39.9% % of Long Sentences 2.7 Low Freq occurs 109 8.9% # of Low freq words 64 14.7% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Difficult names Topics Lions *Animals Animals: Jungle Low Frequency Words adventurous approached banish banished blessed challenged deafening emerged escaped excitedly future generation guidance hij interrupted kiara kiara's kovu landers lieutenant lioness lunged meanwhile motion nala nida nuka outnumbered outsider outsiders overcome peace pleaded pleasure prides prove pumbaa purpose pursued rafiki ravine reclaim reflections refused reluctantly respects responsibility reunited ridge scoffed scrambled separated shared siding simba simba's spies spirited teachings timon union upendi viciously zira's