Title - It's Halloween. I'm Turning Green. Author: Gutman, Dan Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre It’s Halloween, and you know what that means! Candy! Costumes! More candy! What would happen if a kid ate a million hundred pounds of chocolate in one night? Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 968 3.6 730 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 3183 # of Different Words 762 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 2323 73% # of Hi freq words 334 43.8% % of Long Sentences 3.1 Low Freq occurs 145 4.6% # of Low freq words 95 12.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Headings Footnotes Features Topics Stealing Costumes Candy *Holidays, Events, Cele Halloween Low Frequency Words accumulation agents announced assignment averaged avondale bellied charged chitchat cognito concentrate convincing darth disguise doorbells drawkcab dudes ease encountered fault ffuts fistfuls gang's genius ghouls glory goblins gonna google granite halloween hickory hideous hilarious hippie honest horrifying hunchbacks inappropriate incognito informed lied lighten looc magical maple maximum mischief mounds mutant neighborhood nude patties peppermint pillowcases posed redman reese's resist revenge revolting ridiculous roaming route ryan ryan's sapsucker scam skateboarding skateboards smarties snickers soaping starburst strategy sycamore teenagers tonight's tootsie tp'd tp's treater uglier underwear underwerewolf violent warheads wart wears weird werewolf yonkers youtube zombie zombies