Title - Mummies in the Morning Author: Osborne, Mary Pope Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Jack and Annie don't need another mummy. But that's what they get when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to ancient Egypt. There they meet a long-dead queen who needs their help. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 883 3.4 720 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 20 Total # of Words 2411 # of Different Words 650 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 1721 71.4% # of Hi freq words 288 44.3% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 102 4.2% # of Low freq words 64 9.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Inferences: Some implications Concept: Fanciful Table of Contents Chapters Headings Features Character traits Simple Plot Topics Time Travel/Traveling *History Foreign Country Low Frequency Words absolutely alas burial caption coughing demons echoing egyptian egyptians funeral gazed hollow horror hutepi jewelry knight knights medallion mirage moat mourners musty mysterious passages pennsylvania perched pleats poisonous procession pteranodon pyramid pyramids reflecting rescued royal sar sarcophagus scepter section servants shoved slants sleek slink squinted stammered surrounded swept swiftly swooshed terror tomb tombs torch torches towering tyrannosaurus underworld warned weakly wears whisper whistled who'd