Title - When I Grow Up... Author: Horn, Peter Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre When Sebastian has trouble falling asleep, he snuggles with his father and tells him all his ideas for exciting careers. Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 389 2.4 600 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 25 Total # of Words 555 # of Different Words 253 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 367 66.1% # of Hi freq words 104 41.1% % of Long Sentences 7.5 Low Freq occurs 23 4.1% # of Low freq words 18 7.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Inferences: Some implications Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Integral Setting Mood/tone Topics Dreams Growth/Growing Fathers *Careers *Feelings, Behaviors Relationships Low Frequency Words drowsily gazed islands lantern meadow munched murmured nuzzling occurred parachute sandman sebastian sebastian's separate terrors theo thoroughly yawn