Title - Boy in the Drawer, The
Author: Munsch, Robert
Publisher: Annick Press

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
When Shelly yanks open her sock drawer, she finds a tiny boy inside reading a book. Entertain Fantasy
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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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 27 Total # of Words 531 # of Different Words 162
Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 316 59.5% # of Hi freq words 62 38.3%
% of Long Sentences 3 Low Freq occurs 11 2.1% # of Low freq words 3 1.9%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Dialog: Multiple speakers
Dialog: Broken dialogue
Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Multiple phrases
Text structure: Blend of written/oral
Concept: Fanciful
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Mystery
Mothers
Magic
Tricks
Imagination
*Feelings, Behaviors
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Low Frequency Words
centimetres drawer yanked