Title - The White Wolf Author: Roy, Ron Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre W is for Wolf . . . Where could those wolves be? When the kids visit the Maine wilderness, they spot a white mother wolf and her babies on a cliff. But soon after that, the pups are stolen! Can Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose sniff out the culprits? Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 904 3.5 720 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 25 Total # of Words 3096 # of Different Words 809 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 2120 68.5% # of Hi freq words 364 45% % of Long Sentences 1.7 Low Freq occurs 113 3.6% # of Low freq words 69 8.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Chapters Features Integral Setting Simple problem/solution Simple Plot Topics Stealing Wolves *Animals Problem Solving Low Frequency Words aboard acadia airborne angled bifida breathed dialed duncan emergency excellent fasten gigantic glimpses gulped harbor headband illegal immediately interview inward islands jagged knowing labeled labels lair lavender lens level lowered meats messages moly mosquitoes mount nadine national nervously nestled operate paused peered peering permanently pier piloted pontoons previous recorded recorder replayed seaplane shelves sloped spina spine squinted sweating taxied thieves tooted uphill upward wallis wallis's warden wheeled witnessed writer