Title - The Giver Author: Lowry, Lois Publisher: Dell Publishing Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear of pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. When Jonas turns 12 he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. Entertain Science Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2814 6.5 1030 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 46 Total # of Words 3574 # of Different Words 955 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 2603 72.8% # of Hi freq words 381 39.9% % of Long Sentences 19.9 Low Freq occurs 280 7.8% # of Low freq words 216 22.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Chapters Mature Concepts: With some uncommon experiences Features Character traits Character development Complex Problem/Solution Complex plot Ambiguous ending Unusual use of vocabulary Topics Growth/Growing Learning *Community Future Rules Relationships Responsibility Low Frequency Words abandoned acquired adequately adherence adjective amusing announced anthem anxiously application apprehensive approaching appropriate approved assembled assigned assignment assignments attentive attentively awed beckoning bellied blur breach breathlessly capacity cargo ceremonies ceremony childcare churn citizen citizens committee committee's community complicated concern concerned concluded conclusion confided contributing conversations decision defiant descriptive desperately disgrace disposition distracted distraught document earliest elder elderly elders element elevens embarrassment emotions enhance essential eventually explanations fascinated fidgeting fret frightening fully future gabriel gender gesture governing guilt guilty hatchery honest hoping hymn immediately impatience impatient importance inconveniencing innocent insight instantly instructional instructions instructor intrigued ironic jeering lacked landscape language lesser lightly mentioned methods misread murmured namer navigational nearing needless nervousness newchild newchildren nightclothes nosed nurturer nurturers nurturing obediently obey observed occasionally occasions occurred offender opportunity opposite overflown overwhelming palpable patiently patriotic pedaled permission phrase phrases physical pictured pilots pondered populated preferred previous prior private process prominent provided public publicly rasping reassuring recited recognizable recollection relieved required resolve response responsibility responsible restored revolving ritual rituals riverbank rumpled salmon scrambling section selection separating seriously sevens shared shrugged shudder sickening sixes sleek smoothed soothed soundly speakers speech spouses squat statement straightforward streaked supplementary supplies sympathetically takeoff teammate technically terribly terror transgression troubling tunic uneducated unidentified unison units unspeakable unsteady upturned urgent usages viewing vital wheedle wheeled whisper wobbly younger