Title - Even That Moose Won't Listen to Me Author: Alexander, Martha Publisher: Trumpet Club Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre A little girl discovers a moose eating the family's garden. She tells everyone in the family, and no one will believe her. She uses many methods to try to scare the moose to make it leave the garden. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 219 2.0 480 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 398 # of Different Words 182 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 238 59.8% # of Hi freq words 77 42.3% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 11 2.8% # of Low freq words 8 4.4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Unconventional format Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Oral/Natural Inferences: Some implications Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Character traits Simple Plot Topics Credibility *Animals Animals: Forest *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words greeeeeg listens ourselves peace rieeee scarecrow spinach trampling