Title - The Pumpkin Book Author: Gibbons, Gail Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre This book describes how pumpkins come in different shapes and sizes, how they grow, and their traditional uses and cultural significance. Inform Informational RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 686 3.1 680 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 906 # of Different Words 354 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 497 54.9% # of Hi freq words 116 32.8% % of Long Sentences 4.7 Low Freq occurs 56 6.2% # of Low freq words 43 12.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Formal Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Captions Inserts/Side bars Features Topics Seeds *Plants Soil/Dirt Thanksgiving Gardens/Gardening *Holidays, Events, Cele Halloween Low Frequency Words bonfires circular crawling curled edges eventually gardeners glory goblins halloween hallows harvest harvested hollow jagged minerals nectar personalities pilgrims polinate pollen pollinated pollination prettiest prickly ripened roadside roamed rough season shallow shears shortened soften springtime sprout squash stamen stigma tendrils varieties variety weighed