Title - Counting on Grace Author: Winthrop, Elizabeth Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre 1910: Pownal, Vermont. At age 12, Grace and her best friend Arthur must leave school and go to work as a doffers on their mothers looms in the mill. Grace's mother is the best worker, fast and powerful, and Grace desperately wants to help her. But she's left handed and doffing is a right-handed job. Entertain Historical Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2385 5.6 960 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 43 Total # of Words 3596 # of Different Words 892 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 2761 76.8% # of Hi freq words 381 42.7% % of Long Sentences 8.2 Low Freq occurs 120 3.3% # of Low freq words 93 10.4% Subjective Criteria Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Difficult Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Chapters Sequence of Events: Chronological Mature Concepts: With some uncommon experiences Features Character traits Character development Integral Setting - Historical Complex Problem/Solution Complex plot Mood/tone First Person Foreign words Present Tense Dialect/Accents Unusual use of vocabulary Topics Work Challenges Danger *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors Relationships School Low Frequency Words accent anyways arthur'll asshur assurance astonishment bellied borrow boucher briars cepting courage curled curls current dammed delia doff doffer doffing donahue dougie fern fidgeters flinches francos freedom gearbox glares gonna grammar healed hoosic housing jumpers language lawyer madame mamere manager massachusetts menace mingle monsieur montagne muscle musical nosy notch noticing nowhere overseer pas pepe permission pinafore pneumonia portly pour practically public respect riviere schoolroom scrawny scrunching skimming slack slacks sliding smacked snatch sow spending squirmed squish swallowed trapper's trottier tumbledown twirling vermont vert waddled whirls why'd winces wriggles writer yankee younger yourselves youth youth's