Title - Wild Wave Author: Philbrick, Rodman Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre When a tsunami heads for the coast, Nick Chase and Jess Hardy have to run. They make it into the woods above the bay—only to see the sea flooding their whole neighborhood along the shore. Destroying everything. Entertain Adventure RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1846 4.8 880 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 31 Total # of Words 3093 # of Different Words 999 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 2181 70.5% # of Hi freq words 381 38.1% % of Long Sentences 6 Low Freq occurs 223 7.2% # of Low freq words 181 18.1% Subjective Criteria Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Chapters Headings Mature Concepts: With some uncommon experiences Features Character traits Integral Setting Complex Problem/Solution Present Tense Topics Water Cooperation Danger Earthquakes Friendship Survival Disasters *Earth Science Low Frequency Words abruptly actual amazingly announcing assignment assumed beached bearings blurry breathless burying ceases clears clueless compartments concerned consumed courage coverage crawling crouch crouches crouching demonstrates desperately destination devastated devouring disrupted doubt drawn dude emergency emptied enclosure escaped expectations facility flinches floodwaters foliage gasping glance glimpse glistening glistens grateful gritty grounded gulp gulps hardy havahart havoc heartbeat heavily heaving heights homeroom honest hungrily hurl imposing indicating injured intense intent invisible jell kindly knotted knowing landscape laughter launches likely location looms manage mania marinas massive mention midway minecraft moments motion motionless mudflats namely narrowly nature nowhere occasional opinion option ordinary perch perched performing physically pinewoods plunging predator preferably preserve project propelled puke quaking raging razor reassuring recording refrigerator relatively reserve restaurants retreating revive sanctuary saucers scrambles scuttles securely seriously service shaken shield shrug shudder shushes sidles soldier somewhat splitting subsides suggestions surely surfboard surge surges surrounding survive survivors swallowed swallowing swept tangled terrified terrifying terror thoughtful thoughtfully thunderous topple toppled tour tourist tuna typical unapproachable underfoot underwater unfocused uppermost urging videoing volunteer volunteering wail wailing waterfront weird wildcats wildlife wobbling wreaking wrecked yank zippered