Title - We'll Never Forget You, Roberto Clemente Author: Engel, Trudie Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The biography of this star hitter tells of his youth in Puerto Rico and his career with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Entertain Biographies/Auto RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1370 4.2 810 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 3089 # of Different Words 783 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 2194 71% # of Hi freq words 358 45.7% % of Long Sentences 5.8 Low Freq occurs 157 5.1% # of Low freq words 85 10.9% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Two speakers Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Captions Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Chapters Headings Mature Concepts: With some uncommon experiences Features Character traits Simple Plot Topics Challenges Determination Baseball *Careers *Movement & Sports Prejudice Low Frequency Words bonus college crabbers dodgers electricity embarrassed engineer felipe felipe's foreman foul gonna grove hasta hemisphere hitter honor hoping javelin juan juan's knowing language latin league leaguers leagues level lottery lugged major manager manana materials melchor milwaukee minor momen momen's monte montreal neighbor neighbor's neighborhood paradise pedaled pittsburgh plantation plantations plunk por puerto que racial respect restaurants rican royals santurce segregation separate seriously shortstop skinned southern spending stadium stillness sugarcane teammate teammates treatment tropical tryout underage uno unpaved upsetting whiffed whites whizzed whizzing windup youngest youth