Title - Splat the Cat Takes the Cake
Author: Scotton, Rob
Publisher: Harper

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
When the set breaks, Splat has no way to watch his cherished cartoon. "What would Super Cat do?" He decides to win a brand-new TV. Only to win Splat must enter a cake-baking contest . . . which turns out to be a little trickier and stickier than expected. Entertain Concept
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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254 2.1 510 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 18 Total # of Words 440 # of Different Words 187
Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 225 51.1% # of Hi freq words 76 40.6%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 17 3.9% # of Low freq words 10 5.3%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Little support
Dialog: Multiple speakers
Dialog: Broken dialogue
Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker
Vocabulary: Easy
Language: Simple language
Sentences: Simple phrases
Text structure: Blend of written/oral
Features
Topics
Challenges
Cooking
Cats
*Animals
*Home Arts & Food
Low Frequency Words
duper judge judges kitten's mango milkshake plank prettier seymour spike