Title - Horton Hatches the Egg Author: Seuss, Dr. Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre It's the talk of the jungle when an elephant hatches an egg! When a lazy bird hatching an egg wants a vacation, she asks Horton, the elephant, to sit on her egg. He goes through all sorts of hazards until he is rewarded for doing what he said he would. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 694 3.1 680 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 39 Total # of Words 1435 # of Different Words 472 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 978 68.2% # of Hi freq words 192 40.7% % of Long Sentences 7.9 Low Freq occurs 45 3.1% # of Low freq words 39 8.3% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Sequence of Events: Chronological Features Character traits Simple problem/solution Clear cause/effect Unusual use of vocabulary Topics Elephants *Feelings, Behaviors Birds Responsibility Low Frequency Words absurd anew chalk dawdling dayton fellow flocked glee gracious hatching icicles immense instant kalamazoo lightninged lurch ma'am mayzie minnesota murmured noisiest perch practically pullers rifles runaway scarcely seasick sleet splitting springtime taunted tenderly terribly thumping thundered toodle weehawken wichita