Title - Esio Trot Author: Dahl, Roald Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Mr. Hoppy is in love with his neighbor, Mrs. Silver; but she is in love with someone else—Alfie, her pet tortoise. With all her attention focused on Alfie, Mrs. Silver doesn’t even know Mr. Hoppy is alive. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 960 3.5 730 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 45 Total # of Words 3210 # of Different Words 810 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 2138 66.6% # of Hi freq words 348 43% % of Long Sentences 18.1 Low Freq occurs 177 5.5% # of Low freq words 103 12.7% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Complex Problem/Solution Topics Turtles Tricking Pets Low Frequency Words absolutely absurdly ached balconies balcony basking biscuit bury casually colour concrete conversation courage darkish differ doubled egrog elbbog electrified elzzug emoc endearments enormously enthusiasm esio exhausted exploring fellow ffup ffuts foliage further gazing gnirps gorge gorgeous gripped growers gulp guzzle halt hibernating hoppy immediately jealous jutted kindness language lever llews longed lowered mechanic minded minu miserable munching object obvious operation ought ounce ounces peering perform planks potted properly quivering railing railings reggib rescuing retired riot rustling secondly seventh shallow shelled silver's solemnly startled suggest surely swept taf teg titchy toppling tortoise tortoises tremendous tribesman weekday weighed weighing whisper widow wolb worg worth