Title - When I Lived with Bats Author: McNulty, Faith Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre A girl describes how she spent a summer observing bats around and inside her house and what she discovered about their characteristics and behavior. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 884 3.4 720 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 2125 # of Different Words 660 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 1556 73.2% # of Hi freq words 306 46.4% % of Long Sentences 7.3 Low Freq occurs 71 3.3% # of Low freq words 58 8.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Features Character development First Person Topics Bats *Animals Low Frequency Words absolutely accord colony commotion crouched cruel curtain deliberately disease eaves echo echolocate echolocation extraordinary flitted flitting flown forearms fragile furry hairless handled hind hollow instant laughter location mammal morn mosquitoes mouselike musty nursery nursing object perch rabies racquet radar rafters related shone shower shriek shrill starvation stifle sulked swiftly tangled twilight underwater urged warmth warned washcloth weird wildlife