Title - Pets Rule! Author: Tan, Susan Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre none Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 910 3.5 720 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 26 Total # of Words 3088 # of Different Words 773 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 2264 73.3% # of Hi freq words 347 44.9% % of Long Sentences 1.5 Low Freq occurs 98 3.2% # of Low freq words 70 9.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little 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 Concept: Fanciful Bold/Italicized Words Chapters Headings Features Character development Simple Plot First Person Topics Dogs Fears Danger *Animals Friendship Imagination *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words alien aliens annoyed arjun charging confident convincing cowered cue curiously curled disguise distracted domination droop earthling echoed eclipse ember epic familiar fearsome future galactic glared guiding hoping horror hurricane hurtling hyper internship interrupted invade laser leapt leashes lilac muster official oval overlord overwhelming panicked pavement peered relieved rescuer science sculptures sinister skidded sounding specific stampede supplies surrounded swept takeover tangled themed threat towered uncertain undercover untold warned wears whirled wolfhound