Title - Horton Hears A Who! Author: Seuss, Dr. Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre A city of Whos on a speck of dust are threatened with destruction until the smallest Who of all helps convince Horton's friends that Whos really exist. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 979 3.6 740 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 56 Total # of Words 2018 # of Different Words 618 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 1402 69.5% # of Hi freq words 242 39.2% % of Long Sentences 4.5 Low Freq occurs 88 4.4% # of Low freq words 63 10.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Concept: Fanciful Features Rhyming Topics Size Teams/Teamwork Protection Helping Imagination *Feelings, Behaviors Noises Low Frequency Words bungle carryings clarinets clovers cousins cranberry despair drowned eiffelberg fairfax grateful grocery holler hullabaloo humpf humpfed hustled jungle's keen kindly knots lasso likely mauled millionth murmured nonsensical nool nowhere pahs peaceable piped pleaded plucked plunged pouch prove proved racket ruckus shirker shirking sincerely snatched sneered sought surely tattered terribly twas twerp vigor ville vlad vladikoff whooped whos wickersham wonderfully yapping yelp yipping yourselves