Title - On the Night You Were Born Author: Frasier, Debra Publisher: Trumpet Club Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre On the night you were born, the moon smiled with such wonder that the stars peeked in to see you and the night wind whispered, "Life will never be the same." Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1525 4.4 830 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 57 Total # of Words 406 # of Different Words 202 Ave Word/.Sent 33 Hi Freq occurs 211 52% # of Hi freq words 49 24.3% % of Long Sentences 66.7 Low Freq occurs 24 5.9% # of Low freq words 24 11.9% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Colorful, figurative Sentences: Difficult Text structure: Difficult Inferences: Required Complexity: Many different ideas Concept: Fanciful Prior Knowledge: Familiarity Mature concepts: With common experiences or clear fantasy Features Figurative Language Unusual use of vocabulary Topics Earth Birth *Earth Science *Human Body & Health *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words collected curled curving european familiar gravity's humpback invisibly lighting marvelous migrated monarch oxygen pacific polaris reindeer salmon swelled terns towering warblers whirling windowsill worldwide