Title - Hooray for Diffendoofer Day Author: Seuss, Dr. Publisher: Alfred A Knopf Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! is a joyous ode to individuality starring unsinkable teacher Miss Bonkers and the quirky Diffendoofer School (which must prove it has taught its students how to think--or have them sent to dreary Flobbertown). Entertain Narrative RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 842 3.4 710 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 29 Total # of Words 1148 # of Different Words 485 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 723 63% # of Hi freq words 171 35.3% % of Long Sentences 3.5 Low Freq occurs 87 7.6% # of Low freq words 71 14.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Features Theme Difficult names Rhyming Unusual use of vocabulary Topics Teacher/Teaching Tests/Testing *Schools & Education Low Frequency Words announce bagpipes beeze bellyache cartwheel cartwheels chrysanthemums clotte concoctions cough custodian deserve diffendoofer diffendooferous dinkerville dinkzoober dinkzott dreary fashioned fidget flobbertown flooper fret fribble furthermore gribbulous grobbulous hoists hollered instruct jubilantly knots leopard librarian loon lowe lunches mcmunch meandered merrily miniature miserable mutter neckerchiefs ourselves peppered pigeon plunger prune quibble recognize remarkable robotic science shelves sniffle splendidly surely trampoline triumphantly twining tying unceasingly utterly vining wears whooped wobble wrinkled yahoo zooper