Title - Dear Mr. Henshaw Author: Cleary, Beverly Publisher: HarperCollins Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Second grader Leigh Botts adores a book about dog training by author Mr. Boyd Henshaw. To fulfill a school assignment, Leigh painstakingly writes to Mr. Henshaw and tells him how much he "licked" his book. As the book progresses so do the letters. Entertain Diary/Journal/Letters RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1455 4.3 820 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 57 Total # of Words 2801 # of Different Words 717 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 2039 72.8% # of Hi freq words 310 43.2% % of Long Sentences 19.1 Low Freq occurs 85 3% # of Low freq words 65 9.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Features Character traits Character development Complex character relationships First Person Topics Writing Attitudes Fathers Diaries Stealing Letters (mail) Inventions/Inventors Authors Divorce Goals Trucks Moving *Feelings, Behaviors New School Relationships School Low Frequency Words according amuse amused antique college community courses diorama divorce duplex duplicated enclosure enjoyer flatbeds fully getter gondola gondolas grove handwriting happier hauling height henshaw improve ladies leashes leigh licensed liver longed lvn medium mediumest mincemeat minus mobile mooseburgers mowing nevada pacific patrol payment pinger pinging potluck practically produce raisins refinery refrigerated restaurants rotting seattle shoveling sincerely softee spreckels strudel studied truly tutch urgent vocational writer