Title - Striking It Rich Author: Krensky, Stephen Publisher: Aladdin Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre This book describes the discovery of gold in California and its impact on the development of California and the West Entertain Historical Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1188 3.9 780 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 26 Total # of Words 1611 # of Different Words 675 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 1013 62.9% # of Hi freq words 232 34.4% % of Long Sentences 7.2 Low Freq occurs 126 7.8% # of Low freq words 100 14.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Table of Contents Chapters Features Topics Travel/Traveling Treasures Searching/Hunting Money Gold *Economics Low Frequency Words abundance bacteria cholera clients collected congress decent disease easterners eastward education elegant extensive fatal favored fellow ferry feverish flamingoes flecks gambled gathering government grizzly hardships hopeful hushamagrundy impressed ingredients inventor january knives lawyers lighter lobscouse luckier malaria marshall mentioned mexican midwest mining mississippi missouri mosquitoes newcomer niners nugget nuggets odder officials outright overland paddled panama passenger passengers pioneers pockets polk population practical prairie president pyrite revolutionary riverbed roamed route rumors sawmill scarcely schoolhouse seasick seasoned seeker seekers sheriff sidewalks speech steamboats survived sutter sutter's switzerland territory thumbnail trader tufts typical underwear untended veteran voyage wary weapons weighed wheelbarrow wives worth