Title - Math Rashes Author: Evans, Douglas Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre As spells are cast, weird things start to happen at W.T. Melon Elementary School, in this amusing sequel to The Classroom at the End of the Hall. Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1391 4.2 810 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 36 Total # of Words 3144 # of Different Words 938 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 2104 66.9% # of Hi freq words 371 39.6% % of Long Sentences 4.8 Low Freq occurs 203 6.5% # of Low freq words 142 15.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Chapters Headings Features Topics Learning *Schools & Education Low Frequency Words adjective announced antonym applied approached approval assembly assignment baloney brandishing caboodle calculator chatterbox circling cocoon composing crowed custodian dally dally's dawdle desktop despite dimensional doodle's doodled doodles'll doodling elementary emerged evidence exhausted explosions fabulous familiar fewer figures gabrielle gotta graffiti handwriting hari hari's hastened ignored inspected instantly janitor jeans latch leeks legged limerick liquid lively lunchbox lunchboxes lunches lunchroom meantime melon microwave minerals minus moonbeam moonbeams motormouth multiplication muttered oodles oozed paced palms paused peered penguin piddle plastered plodding pockets polishing pounced progress proved putter qs raising raspy rechecked regarded reread resembling resumed richard's roaming schoolwork science scooch scowled scribbly shaft shone shortly shrug shuffled shushes skedaddle slithered snarled speechless sprouted squinted startled strolled strutted swept sword synonym ticked toodle tootin uncoiled unison waddling walrus weird whisper whistling widened willies wolly workbook workbooks worksheet worksheets wrappers yahoo yak yakety yankee youngsters yourselves