Title - The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio Author: Alexander, Lloyd Publisher: Reading A-Z Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre A beautiful Kirkassi girl, cold-eyed villains and smiling killers, a bazaar merchant peddling slightly used dreams - could any young adventurer ask for more? Entertain Adventure RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2540 5.8 980 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 53 Total # of Words 4184 # of Different Words 1259 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 3087 73.8% # of Hi freq words 459 36.5% % of Long Sentences 6 Low Freq occurs 434 10.4% # of Low freq words 350 27.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concept: Fanciful Chapters Sequence of Events: Chronological Features Character traits Integral Setting - Historical Simple Plot First Person Topics Travel/Traveling Treasures Challenges *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words aback aboard accent accidentally account accountant accounts admiration affection ailments alas anchored announced approval architecture array assets astonishment awe bailing bargain bawling bearings beggar binding blabbering bookseller bookstall borrow breathtaking burden burly busiest calculating calmer cargo casting catastrophe ceilinged cinnamon circling circumstance citizen coasting cobblestones cocking colleagues concerned confetti conscience considerable considerably contagious conversation convinced convincing crimson cruel curious curse daydreamer dealing deluged denied depicted despite diamonds diligent dimwit disagreeable disagreed disease displeased disregarded doubt drawn ducat dutifully eared eastern eastward effect embarrassment employ engineering engravings enjoyable enlargement errands evariste evidently excused expedition expensively fabled fancied fashionably fatally fault feeble fellow flung fondled forgery formality fortress fortune fridays gallants galleon garments gateway generosity generous genies gentleman geometry gestured gigantic glimmer gloating gloriously gooseflesh grant grateful gruffness gullible guttered hailed handled harbor headache heartless heavenward hoping household hunched idiot imagination immediately imported inhabitant inset intensely intention inventories isle jackass jackasses jagged judged judgment kindly kindness knotty lading language lantern laughingstock launch leafing leavetaking leftovers lesser liabilities likely lining location lodging logic loiter loosen magenta manifests map's marketplace mathematics mattress meantime measurements melancholy melchiorre melon melons mentally merchants mere messire methodical midst milione military millionaire mischief moments mondays moored motion motioned mottled mounds murmured muttered muttering naturally nature neared neighbor notation nutmeg obvious occasion occurred offense olives opinion original overflowing owed parchment parted partners passage patience perched phrases plagued pleaded plied plunged pockets poring portion possibility precious precise preoccupied presence profit promptly pronunciation prosper prove pulse purely purse quantity quay quayside queasy ranted realize realm receipts recognized refusal region reluctance request resolved ridiculous robed route royal rubbish rubble ruinous sagging sailors sake satisfied scissors scuffed seldom sellers sensed sensible seriously serrano shaping shelves shipping shorthanded shrugged sidya simone sincere sketch slender slung slyly smoothed snatch sparkling specifically spellbound spidery spine squiggles squinted stall stitching straighten straightforward stringy sufficient surely surprisingly suspected tailor tedious temporary thankless thread threatened thrust tractatus transportation treasury triumphantly trivial truly unfamiliar unreadable unwittingly unworried urgent vague vaporish vendor vessel vessels vicious volume volumes voyages vulgar wandered warehouse warned watered wealth wharves who'd wholehearted woolgathering wormed worth worthy wrinkles