Title - Danny, The Duck With No Quack Author: Doyle, Malachy Publisher: QEB Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Shy little Danny the duck goes in search of his missing quack, only to find that it takes two tricky foxes to solve the problem. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 275 2.1 540 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 32 Total # of Words 409 # of Different Words 186 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 215 52.6% # of Hi freq words 63 33.9% % of Long Sentences 1.7 Low Freq occurs 15 3.7% # of Low freq words 11 5.9% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some 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 Features Simple Plot Present Tense Topics Talking Foxes Danger *Animals Birds Low Frequency Words astonished scaredy scrawny splutter squawks swallows waddles wandered wanders who'll worth