Title - Up, Up, Down
Author: Munsch, Robert
Publisher: Scholastic

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
Anna ignores her mother's constant earning to "Be careful! Don't climb!," even after she falls down from scaling the refrigerator and the side of the house. Entertain Concept
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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239 2.0 500
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 33 Total # of Words 467 # of Different Words 113
Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 262 56.1% # of Hi freq words 42 37.2%
% of Long Sentences 14.1 Low Freq occurs 5 1.1% # of Low freq words 3 2.7%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Dialog: Simple
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Multiple phrases
Text structure: Story/Poem
Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social
Concept: Fanciful
Features
Character traits
Onomatopoeia
Topics
Trees
Obedience
*Family & Friends
Low Frequency Words
rascal refrigerator scritch