Title - Fantastic Mr. Fox Author: Dahl, Roald Publisher: Puffin Unicorn Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Nobody outfoxes Fantastic Mr. Fox! Someone's been stealing from the three meanest farmers around, and they know the identity of the thief - it's Fantastic Mr. Fox! Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1039 3.7 750 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 2371 # of Different Words 698 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 1710 72.1% # of Hi freq words 315 45.1% % of Long Sentences 5 Low Freq occurs 85 3.6% # of Low freq words 66 9.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concept: Fanciful Chapters Features Character traits Topics Stealing Foxes Danger *Animals Farms Habitat Low Frequency Words ache angrily approached beastly bellied blighter cider cleverest crouching decent delicately downwards dumpling dumplings earholes effect enormously flask frightening furiously further gases glint goons gradually handsome hoping inched instant itched livers lousy machinery mechanical moonlight murky nonetheless opposite orchard peace poisonous positions positive pricked quivering reckon reeks result rustling scent scrunch scrunching shallow shone shovel shovels sloped smothered sweetheart swig tattered tenderly towards turkeys twitched upward