Title - Watch out for Dinosaurs Author: Nixon, Joan Lowery Publisher: Dell Yearling Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Reading about dinosaurs makes Slap nervous. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 816 3.3 700 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 33 Total # of Words 1734 # of Different Words 556 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 1156 66.7% # of Hi freq words 250 45% % of Long Sentences 9.6 Low Freq occurs 72 4.2% # of Low freq words 46 8.3% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Chapters Features Simple Plot Topics Writing Competition *Science Stealing Journalism *Language Arts *Family & Friends Pets Birds Low Frequency Words article baring cabinet complaints curled diplodocus erwin extinct garza glared gulped haunted honeycutt houston hunched interrupted islands jewelry junior kimble komodo krackles krunchy lifeguard lunged nacs nanotyrannus neighbor nic photograph porter practicing raspy related science section shrugged slappey snickering spilling startled storage tyrannosaurus tyrannus valuable wrapper