Title - The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Author: Lewis, C. S. Publisher: HarperCollins Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy, who step through a magic wardrobe into the wondrous land of Narnia, once the peaceful land of Talking beasts, dwarfs, giants and fauns, but now frozen into eternal winter by the evil White Witch. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1600 4.4 840 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 118 Total # of Words 3228 # of Different Words 816 Ave Word/.Sent 12 Hi Freq occurs 2487 77% # of Hi freq words 382 46.8% % of Long Sentences 22.4 Low Freq occurs 121 3.7% # of Low freq words 89 10.9% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concept: Fanciful Chapters Headings Features Character traits Simple Plot Difficult names Topics Witches Lions *Fictional Ideas/Charac Low Frequency Words adventures balcony bawled caverns chap doubt drobe dryads eastern eternal extremely faun faun's fauns flaming further gamekeepers geography glimpse gloomily glossy gracious grumbling handing handkerchief immediately innocent inquisitive intended introduce ivy jollification kidnapper lamppost legend lent lightly lulling mantelpiece meantime meanwhile melancholy merely monks muffler myth nymphs oneself ought parcels passages patter pitter pleasant powdery presently prickly railway reddish reigns rough sake sardines series servants service shaggy shan't shortly sorrowfully splendid stag stags stooping tempered tongs trickling truthful tumnus tumnus's understanding unexpected upward wardrobe wireless woollen worth wring youngest