Title - The Haunted Hotel Author: Roy, Ron Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre There’s a ghost in Green Lawn! Strange sounds and even stranger sights are terrifying guests at the Shangri-la Hotel. More and more people are being scared away. Will Green Lawn turn into a ghost town? Entertain Mystery RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 940 3.5 730 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 3110 # of Different Words 779 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 2052 66% # of Hi freq words 322 41.3% % of Long Sentences 0.4 Low Freq occurs 141 4.5% # of Low freq words 95 12.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Chapters Sequence of Events: Chronological Features Integral Setting Simple problem/solution Topics Ghosts Tricking Fears Problem Solving Low Frequency Words apparently blurted bustled c'mere caruthers chasing cubbyhole d'you decision drawer dreadful duncan eatch ebenezer elderly elementary elevator elevators emergency estate fashioned florence foliage gazette gazette's gobbled gomez gonna gotta grounded guinea gulped haired halloween haunted headache headline highness hotel's how're hunger informed interview kidnapped kidnapping linkletter lobby lugging madhouse mussed mustache nephew nervously nightmare nudged nugent ourselves parlor partners peering pretzel privacy prove raisin raisins refund roock rooster's royal s'posed scaring servant shangri shoved shrugged shuffled shutting smirked smoothed spivets sprawled springing squinted suitcases surrounding surveyed swallowed sword swords terrified twitched vacuum vacuuming wallis what'd what're