Title - The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me Author: Dahl, Roald Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre They have just landed a big break cleaning all six hundred and seventy-seven windows of the mansion owned by the richest man in all of England! All they need now is a little help from Billy. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1170 3.9 770 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 3049 # of Different Words 780 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 2303 75.5% # of Hi freq words 346 44.4% % of Long Sentences 17.1 Low Freq occurs 140 4.6% # of Low freq words 107 13.7% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Concept: Fanciful Features First Person Topics Wishes Work Monkeys Stealing *Animals Crime Poetry Birds Low Frequency Words amazement awe baffled banisters basin caramel chauffeur chauffeurs coloured damnable damnation decent emerged enthralled fabulous famished favourite fishmonger fitted flavory flown flung furious furry galumptious gardener gardeners gazing geraneous gigantic glorious gloved grubber honour hunger idiot immense instructed jiggly kindly kindness ladderless lavatory lettering longed madly madman magical manager measures moments monger mongers moustache movement muscle muttered nowhere olden oldish outwards patented peer peered pelican pelican's perch perched perishing porcelain precisely reeled respect ridiculous salmon sardine savory scrumptious sensible seventy sherbet sirs smoothly snorters sockets soled spat splintering sprang springy staggered staircase swallow swear thieving toffee towards tremendous truly tweak unbelievable unfolded walnuts whistling whoopee wobbly wonderfully