Title - Hunches in Bunches Author: Seuss, Dr. Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre "It's awfully awfully awful, when you can't make up your mind!" For one poor boy, this indecision takes the form of dozens of Seussian Hunches all with elaborate finger-pointing hats and strong opinions of their own. Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 599 2.9 660 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 718 # of Different Words 280 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 489 68.1% # of Hi freq words 114 40.7% % of Long Sentences 6.2 Low Freq occurs 34 4.7% # of Low freq words 29 10.4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Colorful, figurative Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Features Symbolism Personification First Person Rhyming Unusual use of vocabulary Topics Attitudes Behaviors *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words barg bargaining donter dunce fidget fidgets fluppted frightfully fuddled hunch hunch's hunches hunchy idaho informed interrupted likely mooshy murky nowhere schlupp scrapping shan't shoving spookish ued wonter yanked yapped