Title - It's All Greek to Me Author: Scieszka, Jon Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre As they are about to go on stage, Joe, Fred, and Sam are transported back to the time of Zeus and the other gods in Greek mythology, who, strangely enough, behave much as the characters in the trio's class play. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1501 4.3 830 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 58 Total # of Words 4432 # of Different Words 1084 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 3187 71.9% # of Hi freq words 462 42.6% % of Long Sentences 6.2 Low Freq occurs 310 7% # of Low freq words 190 17.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concept: Fanciful Features Difficult names Topics Time Magic Heroes Good/Evil Myths *Fictional Ideas/Charac Low Frequency Words adjust adjusted agent aluminum ambrosia annoyed aphrodite ares artemis assembled athena auditorium blabbermouth blacksmiths bloodshot blurted boulder c'mon charcoal cohort congratulations countered crouched cyclopses demeter demon desperately dionysus disappearing divine drooled drooler drooling echoed emblem excellent exception eyed fairest familiar fault fellow fellows fiery fitting flexed foil follower frantically future genius goddess goddesses gorgeous gripped gulp guy's hades haired head's hearth hell hephaestus hera hera's hermes hestia honestly idiot ignoring imagination incredible instantly insult insulting insults introduce jagged jewels laughter lightbulb limping lyre ma'am madly markings medal medicine medusa merchants messenger midair millionth minotaur mortal mortals mount mountainside mushrooms musical myth mythology myths nah nectar nervously nightmare noble nudged olympians olympus onstage orpheus ourselves overheard pacing papyrus paris pause peacock performance plucked poetry poisonous poseidon positively preying puny pure racked repay rereading revealed roadkill robed ruling sandals sarcastically scenes shrivels shrugged shuffle siree slobbering snarled snarling spookily squinted staff stammered starvation statues straightened strummed sweatshirt swirled swirling symbols tablet thieves thoroughly threatening thrones thunderbolt thunderbolts thundered thundering toga togas tornado trident trio typhon ugliest underworld wandering warmth warping weapons weirdly windbag winged wisdom wiseguys worshiper wrath yankees yourselves zeroed