Title - Stellaluna Author: Cannon, Janell Publisher: Harcourt Brace Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre After she falls headfirst into a bird's nest, a baby bat is raised like a bird until she is reunited with her mother. Entertain Fantasy 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 29 Total # of Words 1206 # of Different Words 417 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 762 63.2% # of Hi freq words 177 42.4% % of Long Sentences 2.6 Low Freq occurs 56 4.6% # of Low freq words 45 10.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Colorful, figurative Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Concept: Fanciful Features Integral Setting Clear cause/effect Simple Plot Topics Mystery Flight/Flying Bats Right/Wrong Similarities Differences Nature Family Animals: Babies *Animal Life Night Birds Low Frequency Words ached anxious babble breast clambered crawly curious delicious disappearing downy embarrassing escaped excitedly flitter flown flump gracefully grasped gripping headfirst instant knocking leapt limb mango murmured mused nighttime nowhere obey peculiar perched scent shone spied startling stellaluna stellaluna's stuttered sultry survived tangle terribly warned wrapping