Title - Trigwater Did It Author: Rovetch, Lissa Publisher: Puffin Unicorn Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Trigwater gets the blame! Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 620 3.0 660 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 1167 # of Different Words 455 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 703 60.2% # of Hi freq words 189 41.5% % of Long Sentences 3.4 Low Freq occurs 53 4.5% # of Low freq words 38 8.4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Concept: Fanciful Features Topics Monsters Imagination *Fictional Ideas/Charac *Schools & Education Low Frequency Words commotion confetti cumulus droplets elementary etiquette excellence excellent fellow goodsmile handing imaginary immediately improved informed invisible lickety magical mapleton masterful muddleberry muddleberry's naughty paced plumdish prove raspberry remarkable sincerely sirree strudel studies thinsies thoughtful trig troublemakers trout wonders