Title - Little Grunt and the Big Egg Author: dePaola, Tomie Publisher: Trumpet Club Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Mama Grunt sends Little Grunt out to find a dozen eggs. All he can find is one huge egg. The egg hatches and out pops a baby dinosaur. Little Grunt names him George. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 472 2.6 630 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 26 Total # of Words 1132 # of Different Words 381 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 687 60.7% # of Hi freq words 167 43.8% % of Long Sentences 1.7 Low Freq occurs 38 3.4% # of Low freq words 22 5.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Inferences: Some implications Concept: Fanciful Features Integral Setting - Historical Topics Size Dinosaurs Volcanoes *Animals Animals: Prehistoric Rescue Low Frequency Words allergic boulders brunch firelight flaming flickering grizzler grunt grunts hearth housebroken judgment omelet peaceful pouring resign rockhead rough rumblings scenery swamp torches tyrannosaurus