Title - The BFG Author: Dahl, Roald Publisher: Puffin Unicorn Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Luckily for Sophie, the BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who carries her off is nothing like his giant neighbors who are headed for England to gobble children and must be stopped. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1822 4.7 870 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 62 Total # of Words 4019 # of Different Words 978 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 3034 75.5% # of Hi freq words 414 42.3% % of Long Sentences 13.6 Low Freq occurs 251 6.2% # of Low freq words 183 18.7% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concept: Fanciful Chapters Features Difficult names Dialect/Accents Unusual use of vocabulary Topics Giants *Fictional Ideas/Charac Low Frequency Words absolutely accepted babblement bedclothes bfg blurred blurted bonecruncher bonecrunching brute bunkum bunkumhouse bushing cannybull cannybully cardigans cavern collarless concrete conversation crackety craggy cranny crocadowndillies crouched crouching cruncher curious curtain curtains danes deathly delicate desolate devilish diddly dillions disgustable dormitory emptier fiery figures flavour flavours frightening further g's gazed ghostly gigantic glamourly glance glare glimp glimpse glint glistening gobblefunk gobblefunking gobbles gobbling goochey goochey's goocheys grasp grasping greeks greengrocer's gushing haunting heaving hedges hesitated hippodumplings hipswitch hoping hullabaloo imprisoned instance inwards jersey jerseys juicier jumbly labrador labradors landscape laughter lavatory lenses likely longed longing lowered massive mightily moonbeam moonlight moonlit murderful nightie nook obvious opposite outwards owch pace panama patriotism paused pavement peculiar peer peering plucked rance's rasher rattling resist ridiculous rimmed rummaging sandals scrumdiddlyumptious scuddling seized sensation shelves silvery sizzling slicing smothered snaking snatch snitching spine sprinting spurts squashed squeaker squiggling squirming stammered sternly straighten stride strode stung telly terrific terrifying tiniest toed towards tremendous triumphantly trousers truly turkish turks ucky uckyslush unscrewed waistcoat wales wasteland weird welly whiffling whiflling whipped whisked whistled whoof whooshey witching withdrew wonky woolly wopsey wrinkly yelp yodeling