Title - Monster Math
Author: Maccarone, Grace
Publisher: Scholastic

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
As one little monster finds out at her birthday party, it takes about fifty. Get ready for a monstrously good time! Little ones will learn counting and basic math concepts while they're laughing over these rollicking rhymes and hilarious, energetic illustrations. Entertain Concept
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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104 1.3 140 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 15 Total # of Words 158 # of Different Words 65
Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 58 36.7% # of Hi freq words 12 18.5%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 1 0.6% # of Low freq words 1 1.5%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Moderate support
1 pattern excl open/close
Patterned but many changes
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Simple language
Sentences: Simple phrases
Text structure: Oral/Natural
Features
Rhyming
Topics
Counting
*Math
Numbers
Low Frequency Words
strolls