Title - Poppy Author: Avi Publisher: Avon Camelot Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre At the very edge of Dimwood Forest stood an old charred oak where, silhouetted by the moon, a great horned owl sat waiting. The owl's name was Mr. Ocax, and he looked like death himself. With his piercing gaze, he surveyed the lands he called his own, watching for the creatures he considered his subjects. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1695 4.6 850 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 38 Total # of Words 3002 # of Different Words 963 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 2043 68.1% # of Hi freq words 384 39.9% % of Long Sentences 8.4 Low Freq occurs 258 8.6% # of Low freq words 206 21.4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concept: Fanciful Chapters Features Character traits Character development Integral Setting Complex Problem/Solution Topics Mice Bullies Food Chain Fears Danger Nature Fighting Forests *Animal Life Birds Low Frequency Words abandoned absolutely actual adjusting agitation annoyed beheld belched brazen cautiously clamping comings committed companion concluded confusion consequences constant conversations cornfields coward crescent crevice crouched curiosity curled curved dainty dangled delicious depth devilishly digest disobey dormouse dread dude earliest earring ebony educate elegantly emphasizing enabled encouraged escaped examination exasperation extremely feathered fellow flicking fluted fragrance freedom fuming gazed ghastliness glimmer glory grammatical grappling gruesome gulp hazel hazelnut hind horizon horror hunger hurled immediate incredible indignant informed injuries instant instantly instruction intact intend intently irritating ivory judgment lamout lamout's lectured leisurely lungwort lungwort's lurid mannered marsh meadow mercy mere momentarily moonlight movement murmured mused neglected nervously nevertheless nosed nowhere ocax ocax's occurred opposed orchard outsider particular patiently pellet pellets perched permission persevered persisted persistence personal piercing pleaded pleasure plunged ponderosa porcupines portrait pounce precious precisely presumed private profoundly properly protective protector protruding prowl pupils ragweed ragweed's recalling refused requires responded ridiculous ruffian sacrifice saplings satisfaction satisfied savory scoffed sensation sheer situation skittered snare snarling sneered soared spied stalked sternest stiffly stoats stout streaked surveyed swiveling talon talons tensely terrified terrify territory terror thrust tilted timid trample unable unconscious undercover understanding unknown usage utterly veiled verify vicious vision vole vowed warned warnings weasels wedge what'll whiff whipping whiskers winced