Title - The Wild Robot Author: Brown, Peter Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Can a robot survive in the wilderness? When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is--but she knows she needs to survive. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1840 4.7 880 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 35 Total # of Words 3124 # of Different Words 921 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 2183 69.9% # of Hi freq words 339 36.8% % of Long Sentences 11.9 Low Freq occurs 233 7.5% # of Low freq words 174 18.9% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Chapters Headings Sequence of Events: Chronological Mature concepts: With common experiences or clear fantasy Features Character traits Integral Setting Complex plot Topics Language Protection Robots *Animals Helping Islands *Fictional Ideas/Charac Birds Relationships Low Frequency Words absorbing accidentally activated aftermath anchored angles annoyance applied approached approaching artificial blurry booted boulders cargo carpeted cautiously chaos chorus circling clinking communicate conserve craggy crested curiosity curious current debris depths driftwood edges emerged emotions engulfed etched eventually exploring familiar floodwaters flung foothills footholds frantically fully functioning furry gash gigantic glistening grasping gravesite greener grippy hatches hatchling headlights heaving helpless hillier horizon hurricane identified illuminating immediately instant instincts introduced island's jagged jutted lazily ledge ledges lightly lingered littered lush meadow mentioned methodically motionless motors mounds mountainside mountaintop mudslide nervously nighttime nonessential northern objects occurred online otter otters outcrops pelting perched pinecone pinecones plunge pouring properly raged rainwater realize recognized refocused reminder restrained robotic romping roz rozzum runoff rustlings scampered scuttled seagulls sensors shafts shallows sheer shrubs skies skittered skittish sliding sloshed smudge snagged snatched soared southern sparkling sparrows spongy springing sprouted squishy stance standoff strangely submerged surged surrounded surveyed survival swallowed swept swirled swirling tangled technique teeming thrashed timber toppled torsos towered transporting unclamped underbrush unison urging vision vultures warehouse whipped whirring whisked wildflowers wingbeats wriggled