Title - My Visit to the Dinosaurs Author: Aliki Publisher: HarperCollins Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre A young boy learns much about dinosaurs on his first trip to the museum. Inform Informational RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 448 2.6 620 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 15 Total # of Words 795 # of Different Words 323 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 484 60.9% # of Hi freq words 123 38.1% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 53 6.7% # of Low freq words 38 11.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Oral/Natural Features Difficult names Topics Dinosaurs *Animals Museums *Entertainment & Fun Low Frequency Words allosaurus anatosaurus ankylosaurus apatosaurus apatosaurus's brachiosaurus carnivores diplodocus embedded fiercest fossil heaviest herbivores hind iguanodon leathery monoclonius nostril nostrils ornitholestes ornithomimus paleontologist paleontologists plaster plated protection scientist spiked stegosaurus studied studies styracosaurus swamps swat triceratops tyrannosaurus weighed wired