Title - The Knight at Dawn Author: Osborne, Mary Pope Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Jack and Annie time travel back to medieval England via a magic tree house. Entertain Historical Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 849 3.4 710 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 23 Total # of Words 2225 # of Different Words 624 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 1575 70.8% # of Hi freq words 268 42.9% % of Long Sentences 0.3 Low Freq occurs 84 3.8% # of Low freq words 52 8.3% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Concept: Fanciful Table of Contents Chapters Features Character traits Integral Setting - Historical Simple Plot Topics Time *History Magic Danger Castles Knights Low Frequency Words absolutely announce armory awe cobblestones courtyard crouched distances drawbridge dungeon fanfares glared gotcha gripped guitars halt jeans knight knight's knights laughter medal medallion moat muttered mysterious neighing pate peacocks peered peering pennsylvania photograph piercing planks precipice shriek situation stable strolled studied sweatshirt swords torches trapdoor tyrannosaurus wand ward weighed whinny windmill yanked