Title - All About Sam Author: Lowry, Lois Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Everyone knows Sam Krupnik. He's Anastasia's pesty but lovable younger brother. This is Sam's big chance to tell things exactly the way he sees them. He has his own ideas about haircuts, nursery school, getting shots, and not eating broccoli. Sam thinks a lot about being bigger and stronger, about secret codes and show-and-tell. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1262 4.0 790 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 43 Total # of Words 3481 # of Different Words 764 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 2705 77.7% # of Hi freq words 341 44.6% % of Long Sentences 16.8 Low Freq occurs 103 3% # of Low freq words 66 8.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concept: Fanciful Chapters Features Character traits Topics Babies Age/Aging *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words accustomed ached anastasia anastasia's apparently blurred carriage commotion concentrate concentrated cringed curled curtains dangling diaper diapers dulled everyplace exhaustive fewer frustrated gotcha grocery happiness hateful healthy honesty immediately improved kidnapped knelt kootchy language laughter lied maple mastered murmured mushed oatmeal occasionally pantry particular peered phhhhfft phhhwww pleasant pushers puzzling ransom recently ridiculous shoelaces sounding spoonful squinted suspicious sweater tapioca threads underside unicorns waaaahhhh ware weird yawned