Title - Cookies and Crutches Author: Delton, Judy Publisher: Yearling Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The members of Pee Wee Scout Troop 23 are looking forward to baking cookies and are invited to a skating party. But Molly Duff has never baked or skated before. Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 275 2.1 530 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 17 Total # of Words 751 # of Different Words 269 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 431 57.4% # of Hi freq words 110 40.9% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 7 0.9% # of Low freq words 5 1.9% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Character traits Simple Plot Topics Cooking Skating Friendship *Home Arts & Food *Movement & Sports *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors School Low Frequency Words brrring comb myers sonny squinted