Title - Creepy Crayon Author: Reynolds, Aaron Publisher: Simon & Schuster Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Jasper Rabbit has a problem: he is NOT doing well in school. His spelling tests? Disasters. His math quizzes? Frightening to behold. But one day, he finds a crayon lying in the gutter. Purple. Pointy. Perfect. Somehow…it looked happy to see him. And it wants to help. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 511 2.7 640 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 761 # of Different Words 310 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 444 58.3% # of Hi freq words 108 34.8% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 42 5.5% # of Low freq words 40 12.9% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Oral/Natural Features Character traits Simple Plot Twist ending Topics Mystery Learning Helping *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words aced announced assembly borrow brawl courage creeped descended drawn eeked elementary flung flunking freaked glorious graduating hoppypott horrifying ignore ignored immediately improved lopshire masterpiece microwave mural nervously ohh panicked particular pelican penmanship pluses precious relieved sewer spine sprawled studied vocabulary