Title - Ants in my bed Author: A.Chukran, Bobbi Publisher: Ready to Read Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Journey is eleven the summer his mother leaves him and his sister, Cat, with their grandparents. He is sad and angry, and spends the summer looking for the clues that will explain why she left. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2103 5.1 920 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 71 Total # of Words 4320 # of Different Words 1061 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 3418 79.1% # of Hi freq words 480 45.2% % of Long Sentences 11.5 Low Freq occurs 167 3.9% # of Low freq words 136 12.8% 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: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Chapters Sequence of Events: Mostly chronological Mature concepts: With common experiences or clear fantasy Features Character traits Complex character relationships Simple Plot Flashback Mood/tone First Person Topics Mothers Grandparents Memory/Memories *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words account acre aluminum amused angrily backsides banished bender's besotted blur bracing brimmed cleanliness contented currant dappled dialogue dimwitted disappointed dismayed drawn droning echoing emmett exclamation expressions extinct familiar fascinate fastened fenders fetching flatly flinched flowered flush furrows fury gracefully grainy grumbling halo harsher haughtily hocks hollyhocks hoping ignoring imitating insulted lancie laughter lens lilacs lima lowered lurch lurked marriage meadow meadows midst mingling minor motion movement muffled murmured muttered nuzzled oath onion overalls packets pantry passenger patience pause paused peer peered peonies photograph photographer photographs pigeon pointedly pours prairie proposed rearview recognizing reins restless scrambled secretive series settling shimmery shutter sideways sightseers smoothed spruce starched startle startled stately stills stirred stirring straightened suits sunbleached surround surrounded sweat sweatshirt thwack tilted trustworthy uncomfortably unearthing unfolding unhearing untangling uplifted vegetarian violent watermelon whirring wobble wrinkles yawned younger