Title - The Riddle Monster Author: Weil, Lisl Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The monster Sphinx likes to think up riddles and to eat people! Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 255 2.1 510 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 24 Total # of Words 417 # of Different Words 177 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 259 62.1% # of Hi freq words 73 41.2% % of Long Sentences 3.9 Low Freq occurs 7 1.7% # of Low freq words 7 4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Concept: Fanciful Features Topics Monsters Princes/Princesses Riddles Problem Solving Low Frequency Words doubt furious grateful serpent shhhgluck sphinx surely