Title - My Friend The Monster Author: Bulla, Clyde Robert Publisher: Trumpet Club Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre A lonely prince forms a satisfying though dangerous friendship with a monster. Entertain Fairy Tales RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 800 3.3 700 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 23 Total # of Words 5338 # of Different Words 818 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 4442 83.2% # of Hi freq words 427 52.2% % of Long Sentences 0.5 Low Freq occurs 65 1.2% # of Low freq words 41 5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concept: Fanciful Features Topics Monsters Princes/Princesses Kindness Good/Evil *Fictional Ideas/Charac *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words beggar birdcages breeches brute chained clumping courtyard curled deerskin disappointed doubt drawn fellow ferns fir fortune furry haunted ivy ivy's kneel lash monster's needn't ordinary peacocks pigeons ragged rough servants shanks swept swirled tilted velvet wander wears whipped whirled worth wrinkled yelp