Title - Arthur's Thanksgiving Author: Brown, Marc Publisher: Addison-Wesley Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Arthur has been picked to direct his school's Thanksgiving play-and cast the roles. But all his friends want to be star, and no one wants to play the Turkey! What will Arthur do? Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 486 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 22 Total # of Words 977 # of Different Words 380 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 573 58.6% # of Hi freq words 150 39.5% % of Long Sentences 1.4 Low Freq occurs 43 4.4% # of Low freq words 31 8.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two 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 Character traits Topics Thanksgiving Holidays Plays *Schools & Education Performing Responsibility School Low Frequency Words announce appointment assign audience auditorium borrow cafeteria chorus cranberries curtain doubt glamorous glared governor intelligent mayflower onstage performance pilgrim pilgrims recited rehearsals rejoicing resort smoothly speech symbol togetherness turkeys vomitrocious whined