Title - Goosebumps Go Eat Worms Author: Stine, R L Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Todd loves his basement worm farm. Worms are fascinating creatures--it's just a convenient bonus that they happen to gross out his family. But when Todd starts to find worms in unlikely and unwanted places he is running scared! Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1305 4.1 800 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 20 Total # of Words 3108 # of Different Words 814 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 2264 72.8% # of Hi freq words 363 44.6% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 110 3.5% # of Low freq words 72 8.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Concept: Fanciful Chapters Mature concepts: With common experiences or clear fantasy Features Character development Simple Plot Twist ending First Person Topics Experiments *Science Tricks Fears Worms Low Frequency Words according blurted cafeteria chemicals coughing crawling creature's denied dumbest folk forkful fumed furious gazed glare glared gross grossed harsh heating hollered honest ignored imagination interrupted knob leftovers lunches lurched mache model models mouthful munched nature's oozed ourselves papier peered practical project projects prove racetrack regina revenge sandpaper sauce science shoveling shrugged shuffling slithered smacked snarled squealed squirmed squirming squished stumped survive survivors swamp swap threatened tingly unhook vowed weird whisper wrecked wriggled