Title - Black-Eyed Susan Author: Armstrong, Jennifer Publisher: Knopf Paperback Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Ten-year-old Susie and her father love living on the South Dakota prairie with its vast, uninterrupted views of land and sky; but Susie's mother greatly misses their old life in Ohio. Entertain Historical Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1700 4.6 850 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 49 Total # of Words 3031 # of Different Words 884 Ave Word/.Sent 12 Hi Freq occurs 2306 76.1% # of Hi freq words 377 42.6% % of Long Sentences 16.7 Low Freq occurs 148 4.9% # of Low freq words 126 14.3% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Colorful, figurative Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Chapters Features Character traits Integral Setting - Historical Simple Plot First Person Topics Feelings/Emotions Attitudes Adaptability Moving *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words acre acres advancing applied bedevil burrow centipede clambered consideration continually contrast contribute conversation cottonwoods daybreaky earliest eastern elders enjoyment faraway farthest fewer flickertail flickertails fragile fully gathering glance gopher homestead hopeful horizon horsewoman hup informed intend intended intending invisible ironed ironing knowing ladies level lighting likely livestock lonesome lonesomeness ma'am manor medicine memories mentioned mind's misgiving monarch mounds moundy mourners nailed notion object oiling operation opinion overall palms perfume persistent pictured plains pleating plucked possibility pouring prairie prays prospect purist pursuit recite rectangular regarded reins result ridge rippled rude rumor rumpled scarce scarcely seasoned section seldom shakespeare shoved smoothed snugged sodbuster's sodbusting sodhouse sprang squinted stirred stoked storytelling stubble stubborn suggestion surely suspenders swallow swept swiveled tablecloths territory trickster vision wandering whiteys winced wriggled wrinkled yanked