Title - Follow the Monsters!
Author: Lerner, Sharon
Publisher: Random House

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
A band of silly monsters march all the way to Sesame Street in this concept book about opposites, through simple vocabulary, large print, colorful monster illustrations, and a snappy text which rhymes. A Sesame Street book. Entertain Concept
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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137 1.5 180 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 21 Total # of Words 158 # of Different Words 79
Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 80 50.6% # of Hi freq words 29 36.7%
% of Long Sentences 3.3 Low Freq occurs 1 0.6% # of Low freq words 1 1.3%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Simple language
Sentences: Simple phrases
Text structure: Story/Poem
Concept: Fanciful
Features
Rhyming
Topics
Directionality
Monsters
Positional Words
Colors
Low Frequency Words
sesame