Title - The Lion King Author: Disney Artists Publisher: Disney Editions Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre none Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 841 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 24 Total # of Words 1925 # of Different Words 605 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 1218 63.3% # of Hi freq words 247 40.8% % of Long Sentences 2.9 Low Freq occurs 136 7.1% # of Low freq words 77 12.7% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Integral Setting Difficult names Topics Lions Fighting *Animals Jungles Low Frequency Words advised advisor angrily burp ceremony criticized echoed exhausted familiar feathered flown future gazed ghostly guide hairball hakuna handsome herd hideous hooves hornbill hungrily hyena hyenas jealous jeered joyous laughter lioness lionesses lush meanwhile meerkat mufasa mufasa's mysterious nala plains pleaded pounce practically prove pumbaa rafiki recognized ridge rightful sarabi satisfying savage scar's scrambled shenzi shrugged simba simba's slinked slyly sneered snickered sprang stampede stricken taunted thicket thunderous timon tiniest trumpeted vultures warned warthog whined whinnied wildebeests zazu