Title - Tall Tales Author: Lisker, Tom Publisher: Raintree Childrens Books Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Includes the stories of Johnny Appleseed, Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and Davey Crockett and discusses how "tall tales" started and were passed along. Entertain Tall Tales RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 936 3.5 730 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 37 Total # of Words 1262 # of Different Words 495 Ave Word/.Sent 12 Hi Freq occurs 819 64.9% # of Hi freq words 185 37.4% % of Long Sentences 17.2 Low Freq occurs 82 6.5% # of Low freq words 62 12.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some 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 Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concept: Fanciful Features Dialect/Accents Topics Size Storytelling Cowboys Legends Myths *Language Arts Low Frequency Words adventures anonymous askin bowleg branding bury cigarette coyotes curious disappointment ember eyed faraway feller fend firelight fortunately frontiersmen herd herding heroes improvements instruments kinda languages laramie listeners meanwhile memories musical naked neighborhood noontime nothin' outright panther particular partners peaceful pecos phonographs ploughing poisonous potbellied radios rattlers recon reflection sayin settling sources spose stark tenderfoot texans toddled toughened tyke varmints whipped whoppers younger