Title - It's a Dog's Life Author: Erickson, John R. Publisher: Viking Juvenile Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Duped into thinking the world is coming to an end, Hank the Cowdog winds up in town for some more adventures, including getting in and out of a case of "soap hydrophobia." Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1506 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 63 Total # of Words 3252 # of Different Words 856 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 2460 75.6% # of Hi freq words 369 43.1% % of Long Sentences 6.6 Low Freq occurs 169 5.2% # of Low freq words 127 14.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concept: Fanciful Chapters Features Character traits Integral Setting Simple Plot Unusual use of vocabulary Topics Mystery Dogs Messiness Detectives *Fictional Ideas/Charac Low Frequency Words accumulation apiece approach assignment bankruptcy barncat brute bushed bzelwykqe calendar cemetery circling circumscribal classic cleanest commotion concentrate conversation courage cowdog cowdogs crawling dadgum deceitful delicious derned deserved devils dkeithsle drover drover's eavesdropping eerie evidence executives exploring fellers figger furthermore future geeze gestures gravel guarantee gulped gunnysack hackberry haired highly hind hygiene improperly incompetent incredible installed instruments intelligence interrogate intuition investigation involved massive mayday mention merely moments motion nature ordinary ought paced panic pclkenck peace penetration personal pitiful plato pleasure plottens primary procedure proposition realize realm recognized reconstruct runt sandburs scientific security seldom sensitive septic seriously services severe sewer simpler sincere siree situation slashing sources spine squinted staggered stakes studied superior suppository suspected suspicious techniques threatening tonsils tragedy twitch twitching typical unthinkable upward various whamming worth yelped yowling