Title - Ransom of Red Chief, The Author: Henry, O Publisher: Creative Education Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre It seemed like a good plan. Kidnap the banker's kid. Hold him for ransom. So what went wrong? Little Johnny is on the warpath in "The Ransom of Red Chief". Entertain Classics RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 3890 7+ 1120 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 51 Total # of Words 4205 # of Different Words 1213 Ave Word/.Sent 14 Hi Freq occurs 3208 76.3% # of Hi freq words 469 38.7% % of Long Sentences 27.5 Low Freq occurs 330 7.8% # of Low freq words 276 22.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Colorful, figurative Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Chapters Mature concepts: With common experiences or clear fantasy Features Character traits Integral Setting - Historical Complex Problem/Solution Simple Plot Twist ending First Person Dialect/Accents Sophisticated/Difficult use of words (Usually poetry) Topics Behaviors Mistakes Problem Solving Crime *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words absolutely abstracting accede acceded according account affection aimlessly amused announced anxiously apparition appealing approach articles aspect await awakened bas bedlam biblical brute budget buzzard calliope carrier casually cauterized cedar chained chawbacons christened chronic cinnamon citizen cocoanut collaborated colour commend communication complexion comply concealed concluded constables content contiguous counterplots couriers crabbed cursed dassent dastardly dealing decry depredation developments diatribe dictating disappearance disease distracted dorset dorset's dote driscoll ebenezer elder elevation esq exposed expressed external eyed fancied fancier fastened favourite features ferocious flannel foil forecloser fraudulent freckled freckles funning further gentleman geronimo glade gradually graft guarding handkerchief hereby hereinafter herod hesitated hist hither hoss humiliating husky illinois imagination immediately impudent inclined incontinently indecent industriously ineffable inhabitants japanese joint kidnapped kidnappers kidnapping lackadaisical lambkin landscape lantern leech legged legging liar liberal loosen loosened madhouse malaria martyrs masculine maypole messenger moral mortgage mounted murray niggerhead nothin opposite organs original ought outrages outward palatable paleface palestine pard parental particular pasteboard pasting patched peace peaceful peasantry penzance peremptory philoprogenitiveness pitchforks plains plaster playmate ploughing pluck poplar porous possum postmaster predominance presently proclivities professional project prominent proposition provisions radius ransom realistically reasons reconnoitre redskin referred regard regarded relieve renegade rescued respectable respectfully response responsible restored revealed robberies rowdy rural rustle sake satisfied savages scalped scheme scythes section selected series shins sirree skilful skyrocket sleepiness slicing solitary somewhat somnolent southern speckled speech spending spendthrift stealthy stern stockade strutted sturdy subjugated substance substitute sullenly summit supernatural surreptitiously suspiciously sylvan tailfeathers tearfully temporary terms terrifying terror terrorized that'll thorough threatening tidings tobacco tortures treachery trippingly trousers twined undeleterious unwinding upright vicinity views vocal wabbled warn warpath welter whipped whirling whiskerando whoops wildcat yalps yeomanry yodel yon