Title - The Lorax Author: Seuss, Dr. Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre In this fable about the dangers of destroying our forests, he tries to save the Truffula trees from the greedy once-ler's axe. The Lorax is a hilarious story with typical zany humor and silly rhymes, that packs a punch with its ecological message. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1209 4.0 780 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 36 Total # of Words 1864 # of Different Words 651 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 1314 70.5% # of Hi freq words 273 41.9% % of Long Sentences 8 Low Freq occurs 133 7.1% # of Low freq words 92 14.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Features Author Bias Rhyming Unusual use of vocabulary Topics Trees Environment Buying/Selling Saving *Economics *Global Issues Low Frequency Words biggered biggering chap cough cruffulous crummies curtains dander dank dreary excepting figgering frisking future glance glorious glup glupping gluppity grickle gripes grunts gruvvulous gummed hacker hacking heisted instant intend knitted knitting leftover lerkim loots lorax lungs machinery midnights miff moof muffered neath nitch nuisance ohh oldish pardon proved rippulous sawdusty schloppity sharpish shipping shortish shutters sickening slupp slupps smacker smeary smogged smogulous smuggered snarggled snergelly sniffled snuvv sounding stitch suits swans swomee terribly thneed thneed’s thneeds tongues tripoli truffle truffles truffula truly tuft tufts unloaded weary weehawken whiffed whisper whispers woefully zump