Title - Owls in the Family Author: Mowat, Farley Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Two owls, Wol and Weeps, join Billy and his dog Mutt to shake up the whole neighborhood and turn a house topsy-turvy. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1494 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 48 Total # of Words 2457 # of Different Words 684 Ave Word/.Sent 14 Hi Freq occurs 1849 75.3% # of Hi freq words 306 44.7% % of Long Sentences 22.9 Low Freq occurs 96 3.9% # of Low freq words 65 9.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Abstract/Complex Environmental Chapters Features Character traits Simple Plot First Person Topics *Animals Pets Birds Low Frequency Words burp c'mon chokes commonest cottonwood curious curled freight fury gopher gophers haultain haversack haversacks hollering keen magpie's mallard measles medical minded mounds murray murray's noose ourselves outskirts owlets peeved pellet pellets pigeons poplar poplars prairie prairies racket relations sardine saskatchewan saskatoon scuffing scuttled section shinny shuffled slough sloughs snares snuffling spat spongy squooshed stirring summerhouse suppertime sweat thaw thistles tit trousers where'd whisk whistling yank