Title - Penguin Pete Author: Pfister, Marcus Publisher: North-South Paperback Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Pete the penguin has a good time playing on land with his fellow birds and learning how to swim in the sea in his icy world. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 443 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 24 Total # of Words 649 # of Different Words 276 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 405 62.4% # of Hi freq words 123 44.6% % of Long Sentences 4.7 Low Freq occurs 28 4.3% # of Low freq words 17 6.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concept: Fanciful Features Character traits Integral Setting - Historical Simple Plot Mood/tone Topics Size Water *Weather Changes Winter Flight/Flying Fish Winning/Losing Habitat *Feelings, Behaviors Birds Low Frequency Words adventures antarctic cautiously clumsily colony gliding gracefully ledges mysterious nesting penguin penguins pint practising trickled waddled youngest