Title - Brave Maddie Egg Author: Standiford, Natalie Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre When Maddie Egg has to take swimming lessons, she calls on her little brother, Bert, and his imaginary friend, Bob, to overcome her own fear. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 745 3.2 690 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 24 Total # of Words 3198 # of Different Words 762 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 2244 70.2% # of Hi freq words 351 46.1% % of Long Sentences 0.4 Low Freq occurs 66 2.1% # of Low freq words 46 6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Chapters Features Character traits Simple problem/solution Topics Vacations Water Boats Overcoming Swimming Fears Learning Family Low Frequency Words alongside arid astronaut breezeway brochure calmly convertible dangle doyle eggbert gravel gritted horror invisible islands kickboard kickboards lied lifeguard lifeguard's lifeguards lifesaving maddie's muttered nickname overboard panic petty pockets polo restaurants shallow shrugged shuttered slithering stali stall stupidhead styrofoam swallow thunderstorm thwap thwapped tweet underwater wriggled