Title - The Thin Path Author: Morgan, Francis Publisher: ReadingTeacher.com Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Mat, Pip and the crew create their own camp. Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 107 1.3 150 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 14 Total # of Words 184 # of Different Words 63 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 78 42.4% # of Hi freq words 23 36.5% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 0 0% # of Low freq words 0 0% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features First Person Present Tense Topics Danger Helping Low Frequency Words