Title - Matilda Author: Dahl, Roald Publisher: Puffin Unicorn Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Matilda is a genius with idiot parents and she's having a great time driving them crazy. Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2200 5.3 930 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 61 Total # of Words 3275 # of Different Words 965 Ave Word/.Sent 13 Hi Freq occurs 2449 74.8% # of Hi freq words 409 42.4% % of Long Sentences 22.5 Low Freq occurs 197 6% # of Low freq words 162 16.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Table of Contents Chapters Features Character traits Character development Complex Problem/Solution Complex plot Difficult names Topics Fathers Learning Behaviors *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors *Schools & Education Reading Low Frequency Words aback abdomen ability absolutely absorbed achievements adoration adventures applauding archbishop astounded basin borrow brilliance bunions buyer chatterbox chrysalis cicada cobwebbed coloured companions compassionate concerned convert coupled crookery curious customers d'urbervilles d'you delicate delve devouring dickens diddled disconnect dishonest doting doubt emerge encourage enlightened enormously ernest eureka expectations extraordinary eyre fascinated fascination fellow fiona flaming formidable further fury genius glacial glorious gormless graham haired hankering hardy height honest honesty household ignorant ignoring instance instinctively introduced invisible joining judging learnt librarian libraries lyrical magazines manage matilda's mileage minded mooch moustache movement naturally nevertheless nicholas nimble nowhere obvious occasionally offspring olden opposite ordinary organs outhouse ovaltine particular particularly penicillin periodical pleasant poisonous preaching preferably prejudice priestley profits public qualities rattling recipes refused revolting romance ruddy rudyard sake saucepan sawdust sawmill scorchers seldom sensitive shamelessly shelves soul speech speedometer sported stinkers stunned surely tamper teenager's telly tempted thou transported travelled treatment tremendous twaddle unaccompanied vanessa wandering watchful watchmaker weekday wilfred witnessing witted worth woven wrath writer