Title - Stink and the World's Worst Super Stinky Sneakers Author: McDonald, Megan Publisher: Candlewick Press Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre When Stink Moody's second-grade class goes on a field trip to the Gross-Me-Out exhibit at the science museum, he learns that his very own nose has amazing sniffing abilities and that some people have real jobs sniffing stuff for NASA! Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1213 4.0 780 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 33 Total # of Words 3011 # of Different Words 883 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 1944 64.6% # of Hi freq words 335 37.9% % of Long Sentences 1.8 Low Freq occurs 171 5.7% # of Low freq words 128 14.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Table of Contents Bold/Italicized Words Chapters Features Character traits Simple Plot Topics Competition Smells *Careers *Human Body & Health Low Frequency Words abominable aka announced bluck boogers broccoli burp c'mon carpooled collected corpse courage cuckoo dandruff diaper diarrhea digestion eau encyclopedia essence excellent exhibit eyedropper eyedroppers flytraps frankenstein frenzy frothy garlic gooey gotcha gross gunk har instructions inventor knowing label liking liquify looping marker measuring mucus munching murk musical mustered nostril nosy object odorific official onion oozy outhouse peered peering peers peppermint perfume perfume's personal polka potion potions pouring president products professional puree purpose putrid quotes riley roadkill rotting rubbery rumpelstiltskin samples satisfaction science scientist scrambled scrunched shrugged sideways skillet skunksville slink slobbery smelliest snickering snuffled spice spices starred stinkers stirred strolled stumping swamp swear sweat titan tofu toilette tongues tornado tour trudy trudy's truly tweezers uck venus vial walruses warthogs watered watermelon website webster whiff whisking who'd yah yanked