Title - Three Cool Kids Author: Emberly, Rebecca Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre This retelling of "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" is set in the heart of a city where an enormous rat tries to keep three goats from crossing the street. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 706 3.1 680 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 28 Total # of Words 1117 # of Different Words 411 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 728 65.2% # of Hi freq words 169 41.1% % of Long Sentences 3.8 Low Freq occurs 96 8.6% # of Low freq words 64 15.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Concept: Fanciful Features Topics Size Cities Goats Rats Ecology Habitat Moving Noises Low Frequency Words approached berth charged chinga constantly construction convinced curb curling curls debris delectable delicious elsewhere foul grate gruesome headache hooves hoping improve jingling kachinga kalomp karangalalang karashalbang karonch leapt lotions monstrous mottled murky muttered nature neighborhood peered potions recycling repulsive rude salon saucy scrambled sewer sniveled sniveling snuff sparse squincha squonch stammered stomachs swallows thundered tromped twitching ugliest unprotected vacancy vacant vain whined whiskers youngest