Title - Nancy Drew The Cinderella Ballet Mystery Author: Keene, Carolyn Publisher: Aladdin Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Nancy and her friends are going to be in a ballet! After months of taking dance classes, Nancy, George, and Bess will perform in a ballet version of Cinderella! The Clue Crew is excited to wear fancy costumes and dance on a real stage! Entertain Mystery RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1133 3.8 770 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 27 Total # of Words 3055 # of Different Words 870 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 1993 65.2% # of Hi freq words 369 42.4% % of Long Sentences 2.3 Low Freq occurs 188 6.2% # of Low freq words 129 14.8% 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 Chapters Features Character traits Integral Setting Simple problem/solution Simple Plot Foreign words Topics Mystery Dance/Dancing Stealing Costumes Problem Solving *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words accent aliens angrily announced attendants audience's auffredou ballet breathlessly busily candies comb combo congratulated coughing curious curls curved deirdre deirdre's delete delicate deliveryman digital dishing drawers elegant elementary excitedly extreme faraway fayne foley fortunately gagging gesturing ghostly glances glared glissade gooden graceful grossed guffawed hardwood haste headquarters heights hilarious huffily jeans kingdom knit laughter leotard leotards lightly likely magically manager mcguire mcguire's melanie merrily mirrored muttering nadine nadine's nancy's nardo nutcracker ouí paris parted performance plie plucked practical practicing production professional purpose pursed raggedy reality recognized regal rehearsal rehearsals rehearse rehearsing resumed retriever rhinestones royal scrambled scruffy scurrying series servant sheepishly shrugged silvery slender sophisticated sprained squealed stammered starring startled sternly studio substitute supershort supertricky sweatpants tendu thrust tissue trickier understudy unfortunately wand warmers warned website weird whirled zelda's