Title - The Jungle Book Author: Disney Artists Publisher: Disney Editions Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Classic story Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 604 3.0 660 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 27 Total # of Words 1525 # of Different Words 456 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 987 64.7% # of Hi freq words 190 41.7% % of Long Sentences 2.2 Low Freq occurs 60 3.9% # of Low freq words 34 7.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Features Integral Setting Difficult names Topics *Animals Animals: Jungle Jungles *Habitats/Environments Bears Low Frequency Words akela approached approaching bagheera britches council deserve disguised dooby encounter fearsome fellow fetching khan kindly meanwhile mowgli mowgli's necessities panther purpose reluctantly rescuing shere shoving slithered smugly sporting sunken survive swiftly