Title - Mr. Rover Takes Over Author: Maccarone, Grace Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre One day in school, the class is taken over by Mr. Rover, who is very different from the regular teacher. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 158 1.7 200 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 10 Total # of Words 203 # of Different Words 99 Ave Word/.Sent 4 Hi Freq occurs 93 45.8% # of Hi freq words 33 33.3% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 9 4.4% # of Low freq words 4 4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Multiple speakers Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Simple language Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Sequence of Events: Chronological Features Character traits Simple Plot Topics Teacher/Teaching *Schools & Education Low Frequency Words herded mousy nipped rover