Title - Anansi and the Talking Watermelon Author: Higgins, Kitty Publisher: Reading A-Z Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre While Anansi is trapped inside a watermelon, he tricks Possum into believing that the watermelon can talk. Possum proceeds to bring the watermelon to King Bear, who is outraged and throws the fruit, which frees Anansi when it lands and cracks open. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 624 3.0 660 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 23 Total # of Words 864 # of Different Words 358 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 517 59.8% # of Hi freq words 126 35.2% % of Long Sentences 4 Low Freq occurs 66 7.6% # of Low freq words 47 13.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Multiple speakers Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concept: Fanciful Additional activities Features Topics Tricking Gardens/Gardening *Fictional Ideas/Charac Low Frequency Words absurd acres chucked eureka footing foul furiously gopher gorged grizzly hoeing intelligent listener melon melon's melons neared oddity peered piped pondered possum possum's progress raccoon's realizing refused rejoiced respects restlessly rind ripest salivated shimmied shrink skittered slumber snarled speech splitting treacherous trickery unison waddled watermelon watermelons woken