Title - The Wild Toboggan Ride Author: Reid, Susan Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The last toboggan ride of the day becomes an adventure through town for Nicki, Grandpa Dan, and some very surprised passengers Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 466 2.6 630 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 31 Total # of Words 689 # of Different Words 215 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 325 47.2% # of Hi freq words 74 34.4% % of Long Sentences 6.3 Low Freq occurs 34 4.9% # of Low freq words 18 8.4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Topics *Movement & Sports Low Frequency Words carrier confounded contraption fiddlesticks gathering grief interference license penalty pleaded scarf scarves soared squished swerved toboggan whizzed yahoo