Title - The London Eye Mystery Author: Dowd, Siobhan Publisher: David Fickling Books Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Ted and Kat watched their cousin Salim board the London Eye, but after half an hour it landed and everyone trooped off except Salim. Where could he have gone? How on earth could he have disappeared into thin air? Entertain Mystery RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2159 5.2 920 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 54 Total # of Words 3635 # of Different Words 986 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 2738 75.3% # of Hi freq words 417 42.3% % of Long Sentences 11.9 Low Freq occurs 212 5.8% # of Low freq words 159 16.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Chapters Prior Knowledge: Familiarity Sequence of Events: Chronological Features Character traits Integral Setting - Cultural/Regional Complex Problem/Solution Complex plot First Person Foreign words Topics Mystery Challenges Behaviors Problem Solving Health *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words abacus abolished according announced anticyclone approaches astronaut awol barracks bishop's boarded borough cantilevered capsule capsules caramel catastrophic category centred cigarette cigarettes coincidence council cousins curator curves d'you demolition designed devastated devastation edible editor einstein's elaborate emblem emotions entitled envelopes escaped excluded eyeing fabulous fags fascinating fashion favourite flack flair flown flung footballers gangs gazed gleeful glory handsome hardy hawsers headphones heights hoard horribly hugo hurricane hurricanes ignored imagined insane interrupted ironing itchy jeans keen knob landfall laundry laurel lighter lilac literally manchester massive meditate meditating meditation metallic meteorologist metres mind's mitre movement muddle mum's munching newsreader northeast nostrils oesophagus operating ordinary passengers perfume photograph postage programme propped purpose pyjamas queue regret revenge rude ruffled salim salim's sandals scalding shepherd shipping shoplift showers shreddie shreddies skived skives skiving slavery snatched socially society socket soul southeast souvenir spilling spout squashed structure swallows technically terrorist thames theme theory thesaurus towards transcendental tsunami twentieth upright virus voyage warnings weatherman wheeled whisking wriggling