Title - Princess Academy Author: Hale, Shannon Publisher: Perfect Learning Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Fourteen-year-old Miri lives on a mountain where her ancestors have quarried stone and lived in poverty for generations. Then just before winter's first snowfall, a delegation from the lowlands arrive with exciting news. The king's priests have divined that her small village is the home of the future princess. Entertain RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2651 6.1 1000 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 47 Total # of Words 4065 # of Different Words 1240 Ave Word/.Sent 13 Hi Freq occurs 2934 72.2% # of Hi freq words 522 42.1% % of Long Sentences 28.5 Low Freq occurs 373 9.2% # of Low freq words 276 22.3% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Chapters Sequence of Events: Mostly chronological Mature Concepts: With some uncommon experiences Features Character traits Integral Setting Integral Setting - Cultural/Regional Simple Plot Topics Teacher/Teaching Princes/Princesses Learning *Community Classrooms Study/Study Skills *Schools & Education Relationships Low Frequency Words academy academy's accustomed acknowledged amusement anticipation anxious approached appropriate ascend awakened barley barter bellyful biscuits blared browner calculating carriage carriages casual chippings chisel chisels circumstances concentrated constant contents conversations council cringed curiosity curls current danland danlander danlanders deafening dealt debris deepened defied delegate delicate despite determined dictates divine divined doter doter's doterson echoed echoes eligible embarrassed embers encased esa eskel eventually exposed eyeing fanfare fasting fetching fewer firelight folk frantic frid's frustrated future gawk glared gravel gruel harbored harvest hearken heartbeat hearth honeyed horizon house's hovering ignorant imagination imagined impulse inching indicated insistence insult intended invitation jangle jogged kingdom laced ladies lank ledge leggings lentils lever liana lighten lighter likely linder littered livelihood lodged longed loosened lords lowlander lowlander's lowlanders lowlands majesty mallet mallets marbled marda mattress mentioning messenger midst milked milking mimic mined ministers miri miri's morrow mount mountaintops mutton mysterious nannies neighbors noble notion occurred omens onion overcame overlapping pallets particularly patches patronizing paused peder peder's perform performed performing perplexed plucked portion potential precious preferred prettiest priests private pronouncement pure purpose pursued quarrier quarries quarry quarrywomen recognized rectangular reflected refusal refused represented request resist respond response rhythm rhythms rite roused royal royalty rustle sayings scree scrunched season seemingly select servants shard shared shorn shouldered shown shrugged shuck shucks skinnier slender smudged snatched snickered sounding speech sprawled squashed squint squinted startled stingy stirred stirring strewn stubble stung supplication supplies suspiciously tangled tawny territory tethered tethers throaty thrust tightness tinder tingle trader traders tradition trumpeted trumpeting uncovered underfoot undertaking unfolded unifying updraft upright urge urgency variations veins vibrations village's villagers visualize wafted watered weakness weaving wedge wincing wisdom wobbled wonderment worth wrestled wrestling yawn younger