Title - Snail's Spell Author: Ryder, Joanne Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre A story about a boy who shrinks to the size of a snail and experiences the world from that perspective. Inform Informational RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 218 2.0 480 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 20 Total # of Words 309 # of Different Words 143 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 169 54.7% # of Hi freq words 47 32.9% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 8 2.6% # of Low freq words 6 4.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Simple language Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Oral/Natural Features Second Person Present Tense Topics *Science Appearances Food Habitat Imagination Low Frequency Words curled curls gliding grey shrinking wriggling