Title - A Crown for Atta Author: McCafferty, Catherine Publisher: Advance Publishers Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre What should Atta do when she loses her crown? Based on characters from Disney/Pixar's movie, "A Bug's Life" Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 433 2.5 620 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 21 Total # of Words 1131 # of Different Words 374 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 723 63.9% # of Hi freq words 175 46.8% % of Long Sentences 0.6 Low Freq occurs 39 3.4% # of Low freq words 21 5.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Inferences: Some implications Concept: Fanciful Features Simple Plot Topics Appearances *Animals Inventions/Inventors Insects Low Frequency Words angrily atta atta's charging colony dandelion gratefully harvest hoping invitations murmured poofer poofs relieved stalks straighten surrounded swamp that'll thorny underwater