Title - George's Marvelous Medicine Author: Dahl, Roald Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre George is alone in the house with Grandma. The most horrid, grizzly old grunion of a grandma ever. She needs something stronger than her usual medicine to cure her grouchiness. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1699 4.6 850 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 74 Total # of Words 5115 # of Different Words 1229 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 3865 75.6% # of Hi freq words 514 41.8% % of Long Sentences 9.3 Low Freq occurs 311 6.1% # of Low freq words 220 17.9% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concept: Fanciful Features Topics Messiness Grandparents Medicine *Human Body & Health *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words absolutely ache aerosol aerosols alongside announced antifreeze beastly beckoning beetley blight bottleful boxful brew brillident bristle broodiness brutal bulging bullocks canful caution cockerelitis concoction contents cowpox cure curry dandruff delicious deodorant depths disliking disobedience disobedient doubt doubts drawer dreaded earwigs edging electricity emptied enriched explosions extremely fearsome fetched fiery filth fizzle foul frenzied froth frothing gammy gazed geezer gigantic gin gloss gooey gripe griping grizzly grouching grousing growing's grumbling grunion guaranteed gulp gurgle hairset handled haymaking heigh hesitating hoarse horrid horseradish household hunched illnesses immediately interrupt interrupting joints jujube label labeled ladies larder laundry laziness lightly lipsticks liquid longingly maggot mange marvelous materials meadows medicine medicines messes mischief miserable mouthful muscle mustard mustn't naked needn't nevermore nippers nowhere ought paraffin particular peacocks peered peppercorns perfume pint plaster plunked poisonous polishing pondering ponging pour pourer pouring powdered powdery prickles pried puckered purpose quart radiator rattling results ridiculous rubbish sauce saucer scarlet severe shaving sheepdep shelves shocker shoveled shrill sickness sideboard sideways slither sloppiness smoothly sockets solemn spicy spine spissing splendid sploshing splutter spoondrift spoonful spume squiggler squirm staggered staggering stewpot stirred stirring stupidity superfoam superwhite surely suspicious swashing swine swirling swizzle sworn tablespoon teabag teaspoon terrific that'll throaty tidying tingle tiresome tongues tonics toolshed tremendous turnips udders unblinking untidiness urge various waxwell whatsoever whiff whisper whopping wizardry wombat's wondrous worth wrinkled