Title - Monster Manners Author: Cole, Joanna Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Distressed over their daughter's lack of bad manners, Mother and Father Monster insist that she misbehave. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 362 2.4 580 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 26 Total # of Words 694 # of Different Words 305 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 411 59.2% # of Hi freq words 138 45.2% % of Long Sentences 1.2 Low Freq occurs 11 1.6% # of Low freq words 7 2.3% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Concept: Fanciful Features Topics Monsters Manners Differences Low Frequency Words dialed horrified nowhere plumber pouring restaurant upsetting