Title - Arthur's Teacher Trouble Author: Brown, Marc Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre On the first day of school Arthur discovers he's got the toughest teacher in the third grade! The pressure is on to study hard for the all-school Spellathon. Can Arthur beat last year's champion speller? Or will he let Mr. Ratburn d-o-w-n? Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 490 2.7 630 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 860 # of Different Words 340 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 496 57.7% # of Hi freq words 144 42.4% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 36 4.2% # of Low freq words 26 7.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Difficult names Topics Teacher/Teaching Competition Alphabet Spelling School Low Frequency Words alphabetical announced aquarium audience auditorium challenge gulped hiccupped incorrect kindergarten magical meeker microphone paused peace pepperoni preparation process represent representatives spellathon strictest studied sweetwater's trophy warned