Title - Nancy Drew Scream for Ice Cream Author: Keene, Carolyn Publisher: Aladdin Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Nancy and her friends think there is nothing more fun than ice cream in the summer. So when they find out that the owners of the local ice-cream factory are hosting a contest, the Clue Crew can't wait to enter! Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1050 3.7 750 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 24 Total # of Words 3182 # of Different Words 860 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 2091 65.7% # of Hi freq words 372 43.3% % of Long Sentences 1.4 Low Freq occurs 147 4.6% # of Low freq words 96 11.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Chapters Features Topics Competition Behaviors Tastes/Tasting *Home Arts & Food Low Frequency Words audience blared blurted chock chocolaty cousins cowinky curb curls dangly deirdre deirdre's detective digital disappointed dishing dorfer doubled drawer drippy's dues earrings electronic elementary eyeball fayne gagging garcia gazillion glared godzilla gruen gulped headquarters headstand hedge heights henderson honest instant instructions jutted kendra kendra's labrador lasagna lawyer lemonade loudspeakers lunchboxes marshmallow martian melissa messaged mooched muttered mysteries mysterious nadine nadine's nancy's nardo nervously oatmeal opinion parlor patino pint pyramid recipe research retriever rios rubin's rustling samples shrug shrugged shudder sneered speech speeches splattered squealed stammered styrofoam supermarket swallowed swept t's twirling unfolded vanilla walnuts website wisp yummiest