Title - Creepy Carrots Author: Reynolds, Aaron Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Jasper Rabbit loves carrots—especially Crackenhopper Field carrots. He eats them on the way to school. He eats them going to Little League. He eats them walking home. Until the day the carrots start following him...or are they? Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 295 2.2 540 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 15 Total # of Words 436 # of Different Words 195 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 225 51.6% # of Hi freq words 63 32.3% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 19 4.4% # of Low freq words 14 7.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Simple Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Simple problem/solution Topics Fears Danger Problem Solving *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words approached carroty crackenhopper drawers hatched imagination league passion ridiculous sinister supplies tunk whipped yanked