Title - Sam Samurai Author: Scieszka, Jon Publisher: Puffin Unicorn Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Time Warp Trio - They've conquered the summer reading list, but a poetry assignment? Stuck writing haikus for English class, Joe, Sam, and Fred take one little break from doing their homework and they land in the middle of seventeenth-century Japan. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1194 3.9 780 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 50 Total # of Words 3138 # of Different Words 838 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 2276 72.5% # of Hi freq words 359 42.8% % of Long Sentences 6 Low Freq occurs 148 4.7% # of Low freq words 96 11.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Features First Person Foreign words Topics Time *History *Fictional Ideas/Charac Low Frequency Words accidentally adjusted ancestors annoyed article assignment breastplate combed complicated cranks craziness curled decent diagrams disappearing edging faceplate farthest flickering flushed freaked fully future general glinted guy's haiku helmeted historical hola hugely impolite impressed inched inspected insult japanese karate kneel knelt kung language librarian lipped loosely lunged machete magazines magician maniac mention messes motionless nowhere oddly patience patiently pockets poetry pose razor rectangular relieved research ridiculous samurai scenes secondly section shelves shown slicing sliver smacked sprouting squinted stranded studied sushi swirled sword swords syllables terribly translates triggers universe unlucky warp warping warrior warriors wisp worth writer younger