Title - Owl Moon Author: Yolen, Jane Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl. Entertain Adventure RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 449 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 34 Total # of Words 783 # of Different Words 293 Ave Word/.Sent 12 Hi Freq occurs 497 63.5% # of Hi freq words 112 38.2% % of Long Sentences 10.9 Low Freq occurs 19 2.4% # of Low freq words 11 3.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Inferences: Some implications Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Colorful, figurative Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Chapters Features Character traits Integral Setting Simple Plot Metaphors Similes Topics Fathers Nature *Animals Forests Animals: Forest *Family & Friends Birds Relationships Low Frequency Words blackest disappointed echo furry meadow owling scarf shrugged statues threading whiter