Title - Presidential Pets Author: Moberg, Julia Publisher: Charlesbridge Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Did you know that John Quincy Adams kept an alligator in the bathtub, while Thomas Jefferson's pride and joy was his pair of bear cubs? Andrew Jackson had a potty-mouthed parrot, and Martin Van Buren got into a fight with Congress over his two baby tigers. Find out all about the weird, wacky, little, big, scary, strange animals that have lived in the White House. Inform Informational RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2660 6.1 1000 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 32 Total # of Words 2950 # of Different Words 980 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 1557 52.8% # of Hi freq words 280 28.6% % of Long Sentences 11 Low Freq occurs 425 14.4% # of Low freq words 273 27.9% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Formal Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Headings Prior Knowledge: Familiarity Features Character traits Difficult names Topics *History Government *Animals American History Presidents Pets Low Frequency Words abolishing absurd academy accidency accidentally accomplish accomplishments addition albemarle alien amendments amistad approximately arabian arkansas articles ashburton astound authorities authorized banished beau biscuit braintree buren's cabinet candidacy candidate childress circuit citizens colonization committee compromise conflict congress constantly constitution constitutional consulate continental contributor convention conway cortana counties cussed dandridge daredevil dc dealings declaration delegate democrat dependence dick's dismay doctrine dolley domestic donaldson doubled dutch economic elbridge eloquent era essentially estate eventually expedition exploration exterior federal federalist fido fluent foreign formation founding freed freeing freighter frenchman frolic frontrunner funeral galore gardiner general gerry goochland government governor grande greenway greyhound grizzly growth guarded harbor harried headstone heightened hickory hosted idaho illinois import impress improved inaugural independence inhabitant instance institute introduced ironically january kentucky kidnapped kinderhook knox kortright latitia latitude lavish lawyer leashes letitia liberia liberties lieutenant louisiana massachusetts meanwhile mecklenburg medicine michigan mimed mississippi missouri montana monticello montpelier morally mount nashville nation nation's national naval netherlands newly niagara nickname niece ninth officially oman oversaw panic parallel payne peace peaceful perilous pike plantation pneumonia political polk poll popularity potomac preemption preferred presidency president presidential presidents prevented prez promoting provoked prussia public purchase purchased quincy rallying ratification rd refused regal rejected removal reopened representatives represented republican response restrictions result resulted resulting resumed richmond rio robards safekeeping sandstone satan secretary sedition senate sensation settling sheepdog silkworms skelton slavery smithsonian society soldier sources spaniel speech squatters stable stables startled stats stunned successor sukey sultan superior supervised supreme survive swearing symmes taxing taylor's tennessee territory threat tippecanoe transportation treasury treaty turkeys tuthill unfortunately union unsettled vermont vernon via vice waxhaws wayles webster weighed westmoreland whigs whiskers whistled xyz youngest zebulon