Title - Barney is Best Author: Carlstrom, Nancy White Publisher: HarperCollins Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Having your tonsils out isn't so bad if you bring a stuffed animal with you. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 231 2.0 490 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 29 Total # of Words 346 # of Different Words 161 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 174 50.3% # of Hi freq words 63 39.1% % of Long Sentences 6 Low Freq occurs 3 0.9% # of Low freq words 3 1.9% 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: Blend of written/oral Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features First Person Present Tense Topics Toys Doctors Hospitals Health *Human Body & Health Low Frequency Words kindergarten somersaults tonsils