Title - Vincent Van Gogh Author: Greenberg, Jan Publisher: Reading A-Z Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The story of the life of Vincent Van Gogh. Entertain Biographies/Auto RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 3927 7+ 1130 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 42 Total # of Words 2618 # of Different Words 1045 Ave Word/.Sent 17 Hi Freq occurs 1684 64.3% # of Hi freq words 349 33.4% % of Long Sentences 38.3 Low Freq occurs 356 13.6% # of Low freq words 296 28.3% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Difficult Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Captions Time Lines Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Chapters Headings Prior Knowledge: Familiarity Sequence of Events: Chronological Mature Concepts: With some uncommon experiences Features Character traits Integral Setting - Historical Difficult names Foreign words Topics Artists *Arts & Crafts *Human Body & Health Low Frequency Words abbey ability accent amateur apparent apparently appealing apprenticed apprenticeship approved arles artistic aspect assured azure blaming bloodshot boarded boardinghouse bookbinder botany bourgeois brocaded brokenhearted bustled calligraphy captivate carriage cascaded ceremony challenged charismatic chrome chronicled cicadas clergyman's clients cobalt collected commercial confidence confiding congregation contagious cor correspondence courses cousins crimson customers dealing decision despite dramatic drawn drenched dutch easel eccentric economy education eldest elegant emerald emotion enthusiastic enthusiastically era essential establishment et eternal eugenie eugenie's exile extraordinary fabric familiar farmhouses feverish finances firm's flirted flourishing foreground formality former freckled freehand future galleries generations gentleman's geography geometry german glistening gogh goupil governess government greenish grieve grieving groot gymnastics hague haired hals handsome hardworking harmony harvest harvesters headquarters headstone healthy heaths hesitate historic hoping horizon hunched impression impressive improve infatuation infinite influences inscription intelligent intently intoxication january knowledge labor labored labors laden landscape languages limitations linear lodgings longed maintained major managers manufacturing masterpiece mattered merely mock mocked montmajour mosquitoes motherly multiple namesake nature nephews netherlands nickname nieces northern novels nursery obstinate ochre olive opportunity ordinary oriental outsider outskirts outstanding overcome overwhelming paris parsonage partner passion pastor pastor's pastors personality pleasant poetry populated portray possessing praised preached preferring preliminary preparation presented profession prologue promoted promotion property proposed prosperous provily's province prussian pupils purchased purchasing rainstorm reasons rectangles redheaded reformed refused regarded register regretted rembrandt replacement result retired reverend revolved rhythmic rightful rooftops rosebush rough rounded royal rural schoolboy schoolmasters scythes seasons secondary seriously sermons shadowless shared sheltered shimmered smock soberly socializing solemnly solitary soundly spoked stillbom stubbornness studied studies studio sturdy suburban suitor surrounded swags swarmed sweat sympathized tersteeg theo tilburg towering transferred trek tumultuous ultimately undergoing unfortunately unobtrusive unsatisfactory urban ursula ursula's valued vermeer vibrant vivid vowed wandered widow wilhelmien willem willful workman's yellowness youngest zevenbergen zoology zundert