Title - The Monster Diner
Author: Mackinnon, Mairi
Publisher: Usborne Books

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
This story is about a family that goes to a restaurant called "The Monster Diner" for dinner. However, all of the food served to them is disgusting, with things like blue chicken, salads with slugs, bread with bugs, and desserts full of worms and flies. Entertain Concept
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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137 1.5 180 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 12 Total # of Words 128 # of Different Words 90
Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 56 43.8% # of Hi freq words 24 26.7%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 2 1.6% # of Low freq words 2 2.2%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Speech Bubbles
Dialog: Simple
Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Simple phrases
Text structure: Oral/Natural
Features
Rhyming
Topics
Likes/Dislikes
Food
Eating
*Home Arts & Food
Low Frequency Words
dreadful grief