Title - Mulan Saves the Day Author: Tuchman, Gail Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The retelling of a Chinese poem in which a young girl masquerades as a boy and fights the Huns. Based on the Disney movie. Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 266 2.1 520 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 13 Total # of Words 179 # of Different Words 105 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 78 43.6% # of Hi freq words 28 26.7% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 3 1.7% # of Low freq words 3 2.9% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Oral/Natural Inferences: Some implications Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Prior Knowledge: Familiarity Features Present Tense Topics *History Soldiers War Fighting Foreign Country Pretend Low Frequency Words emperor honor warn