Title - Tales From The Brink Author: Harwood, Laurence Publisher: Active Wild Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre From popular wildlife website Active Wild comes this awesome collection of exciting short stories about endangered animals. Entertain RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1628 4.5 840 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 39 Total # of Words 3114 # of Different Words 806 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 2302 73.9% # of Hi freq words 314 39% % of Long Sentences 4.6 Low Freq occurs 176 5.7% # of Low freq words 126 15.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Concepts: Abstract/Complex Environmental Chapters Headings Features Integral Setting Mood/tone Difficult names Topics Turtles Monkeys Food Chain Danger Endangerment *Animals Animals: Jungle Predators/Prey *Animal Life Low Frequency Words abundant adequate adventures aggressive alongside apelike apologise atmosphere awoken bursts charged charging clamber clambering complacent compliment confident constructed content deafening desolate despair despite destination dishevelled dominant dreamless emanating emotionless encountered escaped eventually familiar fascinated favourite fearsome foliage fully further gazed gibbon gibbons gilang gripping grunts hairless haunted horizon horror inexperience infected influence invisible kindly legend legends leopards liquid mournful muscular nearing newly nowadays object occasionally opposite orangutan orangutans pauses peer perched powerfully presence previously primates progress propel pursuit rainforest realise recently recognise relieved respect restless retrace ridges roaming route scurry separate shortly shudder sickness slink sorrow steadily stung sumatran sunning surrounded temporary terrifying threatening threatens towards transformed traverse unable unknown uphill various vegetation venture vulnerable wander wandered warmth warned warrior whispers whooping whoops widened woken youngsters