Title - Star Wars: Blast Off Author: Richards, Jon Publisher: DK Publishing, Inc. Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Beginning readers will take the ride of a lifetime as they meet some of the amazing characters and creatures of Star Wars in Blast Off! Entertain Drama RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 279 2.1 530 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 9 Total # of Words 128 # of Different Words 72 Ave Word/.Sent 3 Hi Freq occurs 51 39.8% # of Hi freq words 15 20.8% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 25 19.5% # of Low freq words 21 29.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Oral/Natural Glossary Prior Knowledge: Familiarity Features Second Person Difficult names Topics *Fictional Ideas/Charac Low Frequency Words amidala binks darth droid droids han jedi kenobi knight languages leia obi organa padm senator skywalker solo vader wan yoda