Title - The Three Little Pigs Author: Kellogg, Steven Publisher: HarperTrophy Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre "Open up, Pork Chop! Or I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll flatten this dump!" Entertain Fairy Tales RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 871 3.4 710 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 25 Total # of Words 879 # of Different Words 419 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 471 53.6% # of Hi freq words 131 31.3% % of Long Sentences 7.4 Low Freq occurs 124 14.1% # of Low freq words 93 22.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Concept: Fanciful Features Character traits Retelling of story/fable/legend Parody Topics Bullies Danger Wolves *Animals Behaviors Rescue Low Frequency Words academy aloft announced assorted barrage bombarded bungalow cantaloupes chinny constructed cowardly delicious delighting eagerness emergency enroll flabbergasted fogged frantically frustrated furiously further fury gleefully graduation griddle hamlet hither hollered hollow hosed hoses installed invention lolling lunged maple meanness meanwhile mellow meteorite moments nervously overturned passersby pastries percy percy's piggies piglets pigsty plea plunged positioned possessions powdered prosper prudence retire retirement sausages savagely sawdust serafina's sheriff sheriff's sizzling smothered soared sow sprang squealed staggered surrender surrounded sweethearts swelled swine syrup taxicab tempesto throughout typhoon waffleries wafflery watermelons whisked wolffle wolfie woodpile yon yourselves