Title - MerCat's Cruise Ship Author: Unknown Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Gabby and Pandy can't wait to embark on a cruise ship adventure with Mercat! Join them on their trip and discover all the cat-tastic ways to have fun at sea with the Gabby Cats.​​​​ Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 352 2.3 580 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 21 Total # of Words 649 # of Different Words 274 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 354 54.5% # of Hi freq words 105 38.3% % of Long Sentences 2.2 Low Freq occurs 20 3.1% # of Low freq words 16 5.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Simple Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Present Tense Unusual use of vocabulary Topics Ships *Fictional Ideas/Charac Low Frequency Words activities announces crafting dj gonna ific kitties magical mazing meerkat mer merrier pause suggests tastic transforms