Title - Ghosts Don't Eat Potato Chips Author: Dadey, Debbie - Marcia Thornton Jones Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Eddie's Great-Aunt Mathilda is sick and he has to help take care of her. But when Eddie and his friends visit Mathilda's house, strange things start to happen. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 941 3.5 730 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 28 Total # of Words 2946 # of Different Words 790 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 2064 70.1% # of Hi freq words 358 45.3% % of Long Sentences 1.6 Low Freq occurs 107 3.6% # of Low freq words 76 9.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Features Integral Setting Simple problem/solution Simple Plot Ambiguous ending Topics Mystery Ghosts *Family & Friends Low Frequency Words cardshark casserole coincidence crabgrass dealt elementary faucet floor's fresheners garlic ghostly glued gnarled grunted gulped haired haunted heating hoarsely hollered horror hosehead hummph ignored imagination interrupted joint knob knocker krispies legend loch lunatic mathilda mathilda's monte mound musty muttered nailed nervously nursemaid oozed peered potholder professional racket refrigerator reject screech seriously shoelaces shoved shrugged shuffling sidestepped slimed smartypants snickered spiderwebs spigot splattered starvation there're tissues wadded wander warn warthog weird whined whistling wisps wrecking wrinkled yellowed