Title - A Dark Dark Tale Author: Brown, Ruth Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre "Once upon a time there was dark, dark moor. On the moor there was a dark, dark wood. In the wood there was a dark, dark house". Young listeners will be kept on the edge of their seats as the journey continues. Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 86 1.2 120 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 13 Total # of Words 115 # of Different Words 32 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 58 50.4% # of Hi freq words 11 34.4% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 6 5.2% # of Low freq words 3 9.4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Moderate support Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Features Topics Mystery Positional Words Habitat Houses *Fictional Ideas/Charac Low Frequency Words curtain moor passage