Title - James and the Giant Peach Author: Dahl, Roald Publisher: Puffin Unicorn Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre When James, a boy stuck living with his cantankerous aunts, is given magic crystals by a sympathetic wizard, he accidentally drops them at the foot of the peach tree outside his house. Entertain Adventure RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1457 4.3 820 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 77 Total # of Words 3369 # of Different Words 911 Ave Word/.Sent 13 Hi Freq occurs 2588 76.8% # of Hi freq words 403 44.2% % of Long Sentences 24.2 Low Freq occurs 145 4.3% # of Low freq words 112 12.3% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concept: Fanciful Chapters Features Character traits Simple Plot Topics Magic Fantasy Adventures Insects *Fictional Ideas/Charac *Family & Friends Low Frequency Words aching beauteous beckoning bristly brute burrowed cellar centipede centipedes churning crouching cruel curvy dainty desolate despair enormously escaped extraordinarily fabulous fantastically flecks frankenstein frantically froth furiously gazing ghastly gizzard glared glaring gorgeous gracious gulp handled happier hideous hobbled horizon ignore immediately jugful landscape laurel laze lemonade loveliness luminous madly marvelous mentioned mildewed mischief miserable mistaken murmured musty nastier needn't nuisance observe occur oozing ought overboiled overwhelmed peace peacefully peculiar pimple possess pour precious prison pulpy purpose radiant ramshackle referred resign rimmed rustling scrabbling seaside seesaw shapely sipping slaving spectacles sponge spoonfuls stillness stirring stung sunken sweating swerved terribly tilting tongues trotter trout truly unbelievable unfriendly unhappiness waddling whiskers whisper wistfully woodpile wriggling