Title - No More Monsters for Me Author: Parish, Peggy Publisher: HarperTrophy Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Guess what's growing in the basement... A baby monster! Minneapolis Simpkin is hiding it down there. But a monster is a hard thing to keep secret, especially one that hiccups and cries, and gets bigger every hour. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 320 2.2 560 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 14 Total # of Words 1471 # of Different Words 306 Ave Word/.Sent 4 Hi Freq occurs 1112 75.6% # of Hi freq words 153 50% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 13 0.9% # of Low freq words 4 1.3% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Concept: Fanciful Features Simple Plot First Person Topics Monsters *Family & Friends Pets Relationships Low Frequency Words bawl bawled bawling minneapolis