Title - Catching the Moon Author: Hubbard, Crystal Publisher: Dallas Morning News Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre If there was anything in the world better than playing baseball, Marcenia Lyle didn't know what it was. As a young girl in the 1930s, she chased down fly balls and stole bases, and dreamed of one day playing professional ball. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 847 3.4 710 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 33 Total # of Words 1878 # of Different Words 596 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 1252 66.7% # of Hi freq words 247 41.4% % of Long Sentences 6.2 Low Freq occurs 80 4.3% # of Low freq words 65 10.9% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Character traits Character development Simple problem/solution Simple Plot Topics Attitudes Challenges Trying to please Determination Baseball *Movement & Sports *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words anxiously approached cardinals charity cleats crouched disappointment dismayed doubled equipment excitedly excused fabric flyballs gazed generosity glances grounders hopeful hopscotch inning invitation laced lather league lingered manager marcenia marcenia's minding moonlight motion mound mustered national neighborhood ninth noonday officially outfield particularly pennant powdery professional purpose questioned reckon refused response scuffed scuffs series shared shrugged smudges snared sternly tagging teammates thread tomboy tying unable unbuckled widened