Title - The Australian Boomerang Bonanza Author: Brown, Jeff Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Flat Stanley and his brother, Arthur, have just won a trip to Australia! They fly down under on a private jet and go diving in the Great Barrier Reef. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1096 3.8 760 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 29 Total # of Words 3031 # of Different Words 929 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 2050 67.6% # of Hi freq words 385 41.4% % of Long Sentences 5.1 Low Freq occurs 166 5.5% # of Low freq words 130 14% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Chapters Headings Features Character traits Simple problem/solution Topics Travel/Traveling Adventures Australia/ns Low Frequency Words accent adjusted adventurers adversary aisle alongside ambled amusement announced apologetically awakened barrier billabong blurted bongo boomerang brimmed bustling butler byes calmer chef chested clipboard comb commercials congratulations copilots coral curled curtain d'ya delicious destinies disadvantages effortlessly engines escalators everest excitedly familiar fascinating flown g'day gestured giggling glared gloved graced gritted gulped handiwork hawaii hoisted hoping icicles instance intoned introduce kanga kingdom language lightly magnate mexican microphone mount movement mysteriously neon official opposite pacific paddling pouch prawn prawns private producing rambling reef resist rhymed rhyming roughly saluted sauntered savannah scoffed seriously sheila shrugged signify sipping skyscraper smoothly snorkel snorkeling solemnly staircase stomach's structure studied surf surfboard surfed surfing swallow swallowed swapping tarmac thawed threat thrust torches trekked trudged twitched underwater unshaven vegemite visible wallaby wallaby's wallets whimpered whipped wrinkle wrinkled yacht younger