Title - The Cricket In Times Square Author: Selden, George Publisher: Yearling Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Chester the cricket gets caught on a commuter train heading for New York City and ends up in Times Square. He meets a young boy named Mario and his family. Chester intrigues all by chirping favorite songs, opera and symphonies. But does the attention bring him happiness? Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1465 4.3 820 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 54 Total # of Words 3481 # of Different Words 927 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 2596 74.6% # of Hi freq words 426 46% % of Long Sentences 13 Low Freq occurs 162 4.7% # of Low freq words 114 12.3% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support 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 Headings Features Character traits Character development Integral Setting Simple Plot Dialect/Accents Topics Sound/Sounds Challenges *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors *Music Low Frequency Words abandoned admiringly antennae anxiously approached babble bustle cautiously chorus collected concrete conductor craning cricketer cricketers dirtier disagree diseases drawer eaves eavesdropping emptiness excitable exploring fitted forefinger glimmering glossy gradually happier happiness haunches houseful inspected intelligent intently jewelry journeys jumble kindness kleenex leashes lebovski legged level lighting liverwurst lurch magazines mario meadow murmur murmured musical mysterious neatness newsstand niche nighttime nothingness occasion occurred otherwise passengers pause paused peaceful peculiar peered pigeons pleasure plucked practicing pucker reasons refuse register resigned rummaged rustling saturday's scornfully scrounging scuffling secondhand separated settling shone shortbread shriek shuttle snugged somewhat soot soothed sounding sprang stouter studied subsided theaters thermometer thicket thrumming tissue towards trial tucker unheard violin wheezed whisked whiskers wistfully