Title - The Dinosaur Who Lived In My Backyard Author: Hennessy, B.G. Publisher: Puffin Unicorn Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre A young boy imagines what it was like long ago when a dinosaur lived in his backyard, as it hatches from an egg as big as a basketball and soon grows larger than the family car! Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 205 2.0 460 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 19 Total # of Words 326 # of Different Words 149 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 196 60.1% # of Hi freq words 66 44.3% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 6 1.8% # of Low freq words 5 3.4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Oral/Natural Inferences: Some implications Features First Person Topics Dinosaurs *Animals Imagination Low Frequency Words hatched lima neighborhood swamp weighed