Title - The Butter Battle Book Author: Seuss, Dr. Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Engaged in a long-running battle, the Yooks and the Zooks develop more and more sophisticated weaponry as they attempt to outdo each other. This book chronicles the feud from slingshots through sophisticated weaponry, until each side has the capacity to destroy the world. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1037 3.7 750 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 53 Total # of Words 1455 # of Different Words 525 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 942 64.7% # of Hi freq words 198 37.7% % of Long Sentences 16.2 Low Freq occurs 71 4.9% # of Low freq words 63 12% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Concept: Fanciful Features Ambiguous ending First Person Rhyming Unusual use of vocabulary Topics Differences War *Feelings, Behaviors Prejudice Low Frequency Words aboard aflutter bested bopulous depressed despondent disturbed downright fancier fashioned faucets figger frightfully gadget general gritted headquarters hoarse honest instant leapt lopulous majorette mell miz mysterious newfangled nozzled obeying patient patrol pell promoted putter rude sagged sickly slingshot slingshots slingshotted smithereens snarled snatchem snick sorrow soul spaniel spiffy sputter sup terribly toted toting trigger tufted twitch uniform's utterly vanitch vigor walloping worsted youth