Title - Rapunzel Author: Ehrlich, Amy Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre none Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 682 3.1 680 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 46 Total # of Words 1187 # of Different Words 367 Ave Word/.Sent 17 Hi Freq occurs 845 71.2% # of Hi freq words 162 44.1% % of Long Sentences 37.3 Low Freq occurs 57 4.8% # of Low freq words 48 13.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Concept: Fanciful Features Retelling of story/fable/legend Topics Witches Princes/Princesses *Fictional Ideas/Charac Low Frequency Words abandoned angrily brothel deceived familiar flown gothel greedily grief handsome happiness haunted heavier imaginable increased kingdom lamenting latter loneliness longed longing lowered magnificent mockingly ohh overlooked peace pierced poverty rapunzel rapunzel's rejoicing roamed satisfied seized separated shears sickly skein surely surrounded terribly terrified twilight unfasten wandering wetted wretchedness