Title - How to Catch an Elf Author: Wallace, Adam Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre You've been waiting all year long, and now it's finally Christmas Eve! Is this the year you'll finally catch an elf? Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 264 2.1 520 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 22 Total # of Words 285 # of Different Words 185 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 144 50.5% # of Hi freq words 63 34.1% % of Long Sentences 2.9 Low Freq occurs 9 3.2% # of Low freq words 9 4.9% Subjective Criteria Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Oral/Natural Features First Person Rhyming Present Tense Topics *Holidays, Events, Cele Christmas Low Frequency Words avalanche grocery jayden's lowers naughty perking resist sided tinsel