Title - Stick Dog Wants a Hot Dot Author: Watson, Tom Publisher: Harper Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre As the dogs embark on their quest for hot dogs, they learn they're not the only ones on a mission—a band of raccoons is following close behind, and they're ravenous, too! Entertain Adventure RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1163 3.9 770 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 51 Total # of Words 3048 # of Different Words 831 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 2245 73.7% # of Hi freq words 353 42.5% % of Long Sentences 11.4 Low Freq occurs 176 5.8% # of Low freq words 123 14.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Simple graphics supplementary to text comprehension Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Concept: Fanciful Features Simple Plot Topics Dogs Determination *Animals Problem Solving Food Humor *Fictional Ideas/Charac Low Frequency Words accurate aliens announced aromas assumed billboards botanists calmness charging cheddar cocking college constantly contraption conversation cuckoo cursive cushion cushy dachshund dalmatian delicious demonstrate detention distracted doughy drawer drawers droplets emanating emerged encourage encyclopedias engineers eyed ferocity frankfurter frankfurters fusion future gary gigantic grande gratitude handlebar handwriting hassle hearty hogging immediately impressed incident inevitable instance interpreting interrupt interrupted jeopardy jingling lengthy likely liquid lowered magical maple melicious miniature miracle models monotone mouthfuls movement mustard naturally o'clocks obvious peace peaceful peered penmanship phonics picasso pong potential quenched regarding reindeer repetitive restaurant revolution ridiculous rippling rude shallow shoelace shove shower showering sleigh slurped snickers source speech spied stomachs strangely superb swallowed swear theories theory token triceratops twentieth unfortunately unwilling weapons weird wheelbarrow wisdom wrapper yawning yawns