Title - Watership Down Author: Unknown Publisher: MacMillan Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre A group of hardy Berkshire rabbits share many adventures together as they search for a safe place to establish a new warren after the destruction of their community. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2833 6.5 1040 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 190 Total # of Words 5571 # of Different Words 1300 Ave Word/.Sent 12 Hi Freq occurs 4272 76.7% # of Hi freq words 544 41.8% % of Long Sentences 20.6 Low Freq occurs 415 7.4% # of Low freq words 320 24.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Colorful, figurative Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concept: Fanciful Chapters Sequence of Events: Chronological Mature concepts: With common experiences or clear fantasy Footnotes Features Character traits Excessive # of characters Complex Problem/Solution Complex plot Some reference to other texts Difficult names Foreign words Topics Danger *Community *Animals Leadership *Family & Friends Relationships Low Frequency Words accepted account acres advice aeschylus agamemnon altar anabasis antioch appreciate approached approaching aristocratic assembling assuming begone blackberry's bluebottles blundered bluntness blurted brambly brooklime buoyant burnet burrow caution ceaseless certainty chorus cigarette clambering companion comprising concavity concluded consequences considers continual continually convinced coolly cowered cowslip cowslips creosote crouched crusade culvert curious curiously current curtain dandelion dandelions darksome dealt decency decision dejectedly deliberately delicacy departure detachment dimple discontented distinctly distressed disturbed dreadful ease edges elders elil emigration enforced enterprise erect estate evidently excellent extinction extremely fellow fellows fern ferret fewer fidgeting field's forepaws foretelling fortinbras frantically frightening frithrah furhead further fuse growth hamlet harassed harm's hath hawkbit hazel headedness heartedly heavily hedge hefty helpless hesitantly hesitated hind hlao hoax horror hunch ideally ignored illness immediate impatient impel impulsive in't inclined indifference individual inle instantly instinct instincts intently interspersed isolation juniors kingcups knives knowing lacking lawless lemmings lettuces level likely literally lolloping loosely martins mercury merging messages mettle miserably moisture moments monthers moonlight moonrise movement movements muttered myxomatosis neighbor neighborhood nephew nervously newbury ni noisily norway noticing obvious occasional onslaught opposite oppressive ordinary ought outskirter outskirters outskirts owsla owsla's panic paralyzed parentage particularly patches peace peering persuade persuaded persuading pheasant pipkin poetic precise primarily prime primitive primroses privileges punctuality purpose ragged ragwort raising reassure recall reckon recognize recognized reeking reeks referred refused relieved remarking residences resisted resolutes respect ripen rowan rubbish rumor ruthlessly sacrifice satisfied scrambled scuffle scurrying secondarily seldom sensible shakespeare shan't sharked shrewd sickening singly situated sloped snare snowbound sounding southward speedwell squealed startled statesman stench stoat straightforward stubbly sturdy suggestion surrounded survive suspicious sutch swallows swarms tedious telepathic tension terrified thistle thlayli threar threarah threarah's threaten timid toadflax tomb torrent towered traipsing tremendous trivial troublesome twilight twitched twitching twittering typical understanding undisturbed unimproved unknown unorganized untidily upright upsetting various vaughan verges veterans vision warmth warn warren wary watercress weasel weasels whimper whimpered why's woken worth wretchedly wrinkling xenophon yearling yourselves