Title - Volcanoes Author: Schreiber, Anne Publisher: Dallas Morning News Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The cool story of volcanoes will intrigue kids and adults alike. Hot melted rock from the middle of our planet forces its way up through cracks in the Earth’s crusts, exploding violently and sometimes unexpectedly in volcanic fury that can terrorize populations for months, even years. Inform Informational RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 842 3.4 710 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 22 Total # of Words 1373 # of Different Words 498 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 764 55.6% # of Hi freq words 171 34.3% % of Long Sentences 1.3 Low Freq occurs 114 8.3% # of Low freq words 65 13.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Simple graphics supplementary to text comprehension Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Oral/Natural Inserts/Side bars Maps/Key Table of Contents Headings Features Difficult names Foreign words Topics Volcanoes Earth Mountains Earthquakes *Geography Islands *Earth Science Low Frequency Words astronomer bursts cascade cinder ecuador geysers goddess grinding hardens hawaii hawaiian indonesia islands jewelry kamchatka karymsky kilauea krakatau kyushu landslides liquid loa magma materials mauna mazama merapi molten mons mounds mount mountaintop myth national olympus overtime pacific paricutin pele pele's pour pumice recorded ridge roman saint sculptures shield sloping solar strands stratovolcano swept thingvellir threads trillion tsunami tungurahua underwater violent volcanic volcanoe volcanoes weird yellowstone