Title - The Red Pyramid Author: Riordan, Rick Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Siblings Carter and Sadie Kane, descendents of Egyptian magicians, must defeat the god Set after the gods are accidentally released in the present. Entertain Adventure RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2344 5.5 950 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 56 Total # of Words 4770 # of Different Words 1281 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 3696 77.5% # of Hi freq words 562 43.9% % of Long Sentences 11.1 Low Freq occurs 315 6.6% # of Low freq words 250 19.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concept: Fanciful Chapters Headings Prior Knowledge: Familiarity Features Integral Setting Complex Problem/Solution First Person Difficult names Topics Monsters Challenges Magic Danger Good/Evil *Fictional Ideas/Charac Low Frequency Words abruptly absolutely accent actual afterimage agitated amulet amulets ankh anthropologist anxious archaeologist archaeology architect artifact artifacts aswan blaming bloke buff cabbie calmly caramel cashmere cautious chandelier chiseled colleague column combination compartment concert confidence confusion consume controlled cousins crosshatched crouched curator curb cursed dangled dangling delays demotic designed distracted dna dominates drizzly dude duel dunno edging egyptian egyptians egyptologist embankment encased expressed exudes factly familiar fatal fedora figures fistfights flown foreign forked foyer frustrated frustrating fugitives gaulle geek gestured glancing glaring glean glimpse goatee gran's grandparents' grant gratitude greeks grenade guilty gunmen halt headphones headscarf hesitantly hesitated hieroglyphics honored hoping horizon hosting housing ignored illuminated im imhotep impression impressive incident insistent jeans julius kane lawyers lectures leopard liar lighter lobby lowered luggage lumbered magician malfunction martin's massive medicine might've minded miniature monument mouthed mum's murmured museum's museums musician musicians must've muttered mystified nervously novels nowhere obelisk objects ominous opposite overheard overturned pacing paris passengers patient pedestal pendant personally pestering pharaohs pharmacist's piercing pinstriped possess possessions priest private protection protectively public pyramid pyramids react readjusted realize reasons recording refused regained regarded relics replica research respect response retrieve ridiculous riot rosetta rough rummaging schooled schooling schoolkid scientist scowled section security seventy shadowing should've siblings simplified skinned slack slung spatula specialty spiderweb stalling startled startlingly stats statues stiffened straightened strand streaked studied surrounded suspicion sweetheart swerved symbol temporarily tensed thames tomb topics tour tourists translated trudged uncertainly unconscious underworld unlimited upbeat violent visitation wad waterloo weird wharf who'd windshield witnessed workbag would've wrought younger