Title - Alone in HisTeacher's House Author: Sachar, Louis Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Marvin's friends think he's the luckiest boy in the world when his teacher asks him to dog-sit for a week. He gets to be alone in Mrs. North's house! But pretty soon it starts to look as if Marvin is not so lucky after all... Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 820 3.3 700 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 2375 # of Different Words 594 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 1586 66.8% # of Hi freq words 265 44.6% % of Long Sentences 0.2 Low Freq occurs 81 3.4% # of Low freq words 51 8.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Table of Contents Chapters Features Character traits Simple Plot Topics Teacher/Teaching Death *Animals Friendship Pets Responsibility School Low Frequency Words albright announce appreciate bonus cougar doin eyed gatsby gina glared grant's greying gross gurdy's happleton heather hillway instructions kennel laundry linzy luckiest mature mccabe's melanie misbehave neighbors nuzzled redpost refrigerator responsible rinsed seriously shrugged sideways substitute swallowed swept travis tuffle waddled walrus warned warren what'd whined whining whisker whiskers why'd