Title - Karen's Witch Author: Martin, Ann Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Karen lives next door to an old lady named Mrs. Porter. Mrs. Porter wears long black robes and has wild gray hair. Her black cat is named Midnight. No wonder Karen thinks Mrs. Porter is a witch! Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 600 2.9 660 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 25 Total # of Words 1223 # of Different Words 424 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 840 68.7% # of Hi freq words 190 44.8% % of Long Sentences 1.8 Low Freq occurs 36 2.9% # of Low freq words 23 5.4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Inferences: Some implications Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concept: Fanciful Features Clear cause/effect Simple Plot Topics Witches Dreams Spies Neighborhood Imagination *Feelings, Behaviors Neighbors Low Frequency Words destiny destiny's halloween hellos herb herbs jeans knapsacks morbidda neighbors peace porter scaring somethings stepbrothers stepfather stepsister suppertime tickly two's wears wispy witching