Title - The Enormous Crocodile Author: Dahl, Roald Publisher: Bantam Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The Enormous Crocodile is a horrid greedy grumptious brute who loves to guzzle up little boys and girls. But the other animals have had enough of his cunning tricks, so they scheme to get the better of this foul fiend, once and for all! Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 513 2.7 640 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 30 Total # of Words 738 # of Different Words 266 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 404 54.7% # of Hi freq words 99 37.2% % of Long Sentences 6 Low Freq occurs 44 6% # of Low freq words 26 9.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Concept: Fanciful Features Simple Plot Topics Monkeys Reptiles Danger Elephants *Animals Animals: Jungle Helping Birds Low Frequency Words beastly brownest brute cleverest fiend foul gigantic greediest grumptious gulp helpings horrid humpy knives muddiest notsobig oozy paddling riverbank rumpy squashed squished squizzled stupidest trunky waddled