Title - The Hoboken Chicken Emergency Author: Pinkwater, D. Manus Publisher: Trumpet Club Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre When Arthur Bobowicz is sent out to bring home the family's Thanksgiving turkey, he returns instead with Henrietta -- a 266-pound chicken with a mind of her own. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 748 3.2 690 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 46 Total # of Words 1789 # of Different Words 520 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 1210 67.6% # of Hi freq words 227 43.7% % of Long Sentences 13.1 Low Freq occurs 72 4% # of Low freq words 50 9.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Inferences: Some implications Concept: Fanciful Features Character traits Simple Plot Topics Size Fears *Animals Pets Birds Low Frequency Words appointment bannister bargain butchers chapatis chutney cousins curry depressed embroidered everyplace evicted german groceries hoboken hong inventor kong mango markets mazzocchi mazzocchi's meatloaf medium neighborhood neighbors numb ordinary ought poland poppa poppa's poultry puerto raises refunds reservation reserved sausages scientist spice superchicken supermarkets suspected tamely terribly turkeys ukraine ungrateful warned