Title - I Need My Monster Author: Noll, Amanda Publisher: Flashlight Press Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre One night, when Ethan checks under his bed for his monster, Gabe, he finds a note from him instead: "Gone fishing. Back in a week." Ethan knows that without Gabe's familiar nightly scares he doesn't stand a chance of getting to sleep, so Ethan interviews potential substitutes to see if they've got the right equipment for the job Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 562 2.9 650 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 33 Total # of Words 1124 # of Different Words 402 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 746 66.4% # of Hi freq words 157 39.1% % of Long Sentences 2.8 Low Freq occurs 59 5.2% # of Low freq words 53 13.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Character traits Simple problem/solution Topics Monsters Fears *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words bedpost breather breathy challenge challenging courage crouched delicious excellent familiar groomed herbert's hoping hunger imagining impressive inspection interrupted jagged menacing nervously ohh ominous ooze overbite peered personal professional ragged rasped razor reject rude scrabbling scrambled scrunched shaggy shuffling sleekly slithering slobbering slurped soundlessly spiked stumpy substitute terrifying uncut unfurled warned whined whistling yanked