Title - Turk and Runt Author: Wheeler, Lisa Publisher: Aladdin Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre But no one ever listens to Runt -- even after people with seasonal plans and roasting pans begin showing up at Wishbone Farm, or even after the juiciest turkeys are chosen, one by one. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 582 2.9 660 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 20 Total # of Words 896 # of Different Words 354 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 516 57.6% # of Hi freq words 121 34.2% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 71 7.9% # of Low freq words 49 13.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Inferences: Some implications Features Character traits Topics Thanksgiving Tricking Danger *Holidays, Events, Cele Low Frequency Words addition alfalfa ballet basted bleu carloads chestnut commercials cranberry deserve drooled feathered gobbled goner graceful gracefully hacking healthy instructed instructor juicier ladies madame maniac mowed orchard perform pirouette plucked quivering runt sacre sauce shuckers somersault squealed starring strut swan turk turkeys vegetarian waddelle warned weaved wheezed whirled zat zose