Title - Sally Ride Author: Silverberg, Bea Publisher: Reading A-Z Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Readers will read about Sally Ride, who at age 32 became the first American woman in space and the youngest astronaut in NASA's history. This book highlights her accomplishments and describes her training. Other women astronauts are introduced, and the Challenger's excursions are described. Inform Biographies/Auto RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 767 3.2 690 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 27 Total # of Words 1036 # of Different Words 403 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 577 55.7% # of Hi freq words 137 34% % of Long Sentences 1.9 Low Freq occurs 91 8.8% # of Low freq words 53 13.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Simple Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Formal Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Captions Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Table of Contents Headings Additional activities Features Topics Astronauts *Careers Low Frequency Words aboard administration aeronautics astronaut astronauts astrophysics challenger circling college courage degrees educator elementary encino engineer fabian fascinated fuel galaxies hawley introduction january judith kathryn kilometers launch literature mcauliffe model mounted mph national operate ordinary ph physics recruiting reentry resnick satellite satellites science scientist shared shown shuttle soviet spectacular surrounding union weightless wonders youngest