Title - On The Banks of Plum Creek Author: Wilder, Laura Ingalls Publisher: Harper & Row Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the prairie and travel in their covered wagon to Minnesota. Here they settle in a little house made of sod beside the banks of beautiful Plum Creek. Entertain Historical Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1478 4.3 820 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 29 Total # of Words 3939 # of Different Words 879 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 2852 72.4% # of Hi freq words 383 43.6% % of Long Sentences 11.1 Low Freq occurs 147 3.7% # of Low freq words 107 12.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Colorful, figurative Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Chapters Sequence of Events: Chronological Features Character traits Integral Setting Simple Plot Topics Challenges *History Danger American History Moving *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words ached alighted arched bedsteads blurry boughs bouquets breathed calico cautiously chee colours combed contend curve curved dragonflies eared faraway fellow fetching firelight fitted footbridge furry gaily glistening glory gravel greased grey happier harvest hollow hoppity hovered jointed joints knowing level manage manes manger minnesota missouri mustangs necklaces parted patched peaceful peacefully picket pint plank pleasant pouring prairie prickled rattling rippled rippling rosy ruffled season shaded shallow shimmery silvery sleek sleepily slender slunk smarted smoothed sods sowed spied springing squatted stable stovepipe sunbonnet swarmed swept swiftly swirl tableland ter territory thickets tickly tongues trickling truly twee tweet twitter unhitched unsteady upstream velvet waterbug wavered whistling whitewashed woven yah