| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Shivering skeletons, ghostly pirates, chattering corpses, and haunted graveyards... all to chill your bones! Do you like scary stories? Do think it's fun to be scared? Then these seven short and spooky stories are for you |
Entertain |
Mystery |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 267 |
2.1 |
520 |
Amazon
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| RDQ based on a maximum of 3000 words |
Levels are suggested levels based on RDQ, not official levels |
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| Sentences |
Total Words |
Different Words |
| Max Word/Sent |
30 |
Total # of Words |
923 |
# of Different Words |
292 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
7 |
Hi Freq occurs |
648 |
70.2% |
# of Hi freq words |
135 |
46.2% |
| % of Long Sentences |
0.9 |
Low Freq occurs |
17 |
1.8% |
# of Low freq words |
8 |
2.7% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
| Concept: Fanciful |
| Table of Contents |
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| Topics |
| Mystery |
| Death |
| Ghosts |
| Fears |
| *Fictional Ideas/Charac |
| Night |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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cemetery |
corpses |
curtains |
drawers |
haunting |
spending |
sweater |
yawned |
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