Title - The Bunyans Author: Wood, Audrey Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre You may know that Paul Bunyan was taller than a redwood tree and stronger than fifty grizzly bears -- but you may NOT know that he also had a wife and kids who helped him create some of the most striking natural wonders of North America! Entertain Folk Tales RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1336 4.1 800 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 33 Total # of Words 1195 # of Different Words 520 Ave Word/.Sent 15 Hi Freq occurs 716 59.9% # of Hi freq words 190 36.5% % of Long Sentences 24.1 Low Freq occurs 100 8.4% # of Low freq words 84 16.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Inferences: Some implications Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Colorful, figurative Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concept: Fanciful Features Character traits Simple Plot Parody Topics Size Changes Giants *History American History *Geography *Fictional Ideas/Charac *Family & Friends Low Frequency Words acre administration aeronautics astronomy barren barrier behemoth bicentennial burrowed cavern ceremony chiseling colossal continental cordially coy curls designer dirtied dunes eastern exploring fanciful fashion fashioned flickering forceful gargantuan geyser geysers giantess gigantic glistening gondoliers graduation hearty illusion image invitation invitations jean's jumbo kentucky logging mammoth martian mcintie mission missouri montana mysterious nanyon national niagara pacific passengers photograph photographs pickax puma retired riverbed scenic sculpting sculptures sensation shower showered silo slink spacecraft sparkling studied sur syrup teeny's torch varmints venice viking wander wonderland wrestling yellowstone