Title - Amalia and the Grasshopper Author: Tello, Jerry Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre When Amalia becomes discouraged after trying to shoot a basketball through a hoop as easily as her big brother, her grandfather gives her advice. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 205 2.0 460 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 392 # of Different Words 153 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 243 62% # of Hi freq words 77 50.3% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 0 0% # of Low freq words 0 0% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Character traits Topics Determination Grandparents Basketball *Movement & Sports *Family & Friends Low Frequency Words