Title - The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins Author: Seuss, Dr. Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Bartholomew provokes the king when hats magically appear on his head every time he removes one. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1245 4.0 800 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 49 Total # of Words 4003 # of Different Words 889 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 2786 69.6% # of Hi freq words 344 38.7% % of Long Sentences 5 Low Freq occurs 230 5.7% # of Low freq words 140 15.7% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Concept: Fanciful Features Simple Plot Topics Trying to please Magic Kings/Queens *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words ached advise amazement anxious astonished astonishment awakened bagful balcony bowmen carriage coachman cobbled cobblestones courtyard cowardly cranberries cranberry crimson curbstones curved damper demon's drawbridge dreadful duke's dukes dungeon echoed excellent executioner fancier fiddlesticks flung furlongs fury gigantic gowned greatly grunted gulped haughtily horseshoes idly immediately impatiently impudence impudent instant jangling jewel kingdom ladies likely lords lurched magicians magnificent majesty mansions meanly merchants merely mightiest muttering mysterious mystic nephew nervously nipped noblemen noblemen's ordinary ostrich ought paradise parapet plainest pleasant plumes plunked practise procession pudgy railing realm reins relieved robed royal ruby saluting scarcely scarlet scissors scroll severely shuffling sidewalks sire snatched solemn solemnly soundly southwest spanked spectacles spiral spires spite spurs stairway stalked stammered sternly stiffly strode swept sword terrace terribly terrifying towering townsfolk triangular trickster trumpeters turret turrets wealthy wearily whisked whistled whistling wilfred wrinkling wrist yawned yeoman yowl