Title - Arthur's Halloween Author: Brown, Marc Publisher: Trumpet Club Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Arthur finds everything about Halloween scary: his little sister's costume, even his morning snack! But he's most afraid of the big spooky house on the corner where no one wants to go trick-or-treating. His fears are eventually soothed once Arthur realizes things don't always turn out the way you imagine, as Arthur discovers that Halloween isn't really so frightening after all. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 373 2.4 590 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 17 Total # of Words 779 # of Different Words 329 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 457 58.7% # of Hi freq words 133 40.4% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 19 2.4% # of Low freq words 15 4.6% 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 Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Character traits Character development Topics Witches Teasing Holidays Fears Costumes *Entertainment & Fun *Feelings, Behaviors *Holidays, Events, Cele Halloween Neighbors Pretend School Low Frequency Words aluminum attendance cellar cemetery cider foil gross halloween recognize recognized scaredy scientific shortcut tricking weird