Title - Funny Lunch Author: Catrow, David Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The chef loves making pizzas. But he gets an order for 100 pizzas! Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 170 1.7 220 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 221 # of Different Words 113 Ave Word/.Sent 4 Hi Freq occurs 116 52.5% # of Hi freq words 43 38.1% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 7 3.2% # of Low freq words 5 4.4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Vocabulary: Easy Language: Simple language Sentences: Captions/Simple Text structure: Oral/Natural Features First Person Present Tense Topics Cooking *Home Arts & Food Pizza Low Frequency Words chef replies scarf spaniel takeout