| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| All we see are two pairs of sneakers -- one large, one small -- as a little girl and her father tour a dark, mysterious house, eventually revealed to be a Halloween House. |
Entertain |
Concept |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 287 |
2.2 |
530 |
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 |
23 |
Total # of Words |
266 |
# of Different Words |
159 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
10 |
Hi Freq occurs |
147 |
55.3% |
# of Hi freq words |
56 |
35.2% |
| % of Long Sentences |
3.8 |
Low Freq occurs |
16 |
6% |
# of Low freq words |
16 |
10.1% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Dialog: Simple |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Many descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
| Concept: Fanciful |
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| Features |
| Character traits |
| Rhyming |
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| Topics |
| Witches |
| Bats |
| Holidays |
| Ghosts |
| Fears |
| Houses |
| *Holidays, Events, Cele |
| Halloween |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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asparkle |
basin |
chandelier |
crawling |
footed |
funeral |
halloween |
organ's |
paneled |
raggedy |
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rattling |
spouting |
tomb |
werewolf |
winking |
zombie |
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