Title - Our Planet! Author: McAnulty, Stacy Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Our Planet is a humorous, non-fiction picture book narrated by Earth, who introduces herself as "Planet Awesome" to teach children about her ecosystems and the urgent need to combat climate change. Persuade Informational RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 440 2.5 620 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 24 Total # of Words 452 # of Different Words 228 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 239 52.9% # of Hi freq words 74 32.5% % of Long Sentences 4.5 Low Freq occurs 37 8.2% # of Low freq words 27 11.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Captions Diagrams Features First Person Topics *Space Environment Planets Earth Air Pollution *Habitats/Environments Low Frequency Words atmosphere average climate earthlings energies evaporated fauna gases hydropower ideal introduce massive mercury neptune oxygen reasons recycle region reuse seasonal siblings solar specific uncomfortable uranus venus wacky