Title - Diary of a Wimpy Kid Author: Kinney, Jeff Publisher: Amulet Books Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre It's a new school year, and sixth-grader Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving. Entertain Diary/Journal/Letters RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1569 4.4 840 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 39 Total # of Words 3574 # of Different Words 859 Ave Word/.Sent 17 Hi Freq occurs 2805 78.5% # of Hi freq words 372 43.3% % of Long Sentences 31.4 Low Freq occurs 152 4.3% # of Low freq words 108 12.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Oral/Natural Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Character traits First Person Topics Attitudes Friendship *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors *Schools & Education Low Frequency Words advice ahold annoyed appreciate assigned ban basically bikini blacktop brill carries chirag complicated considerate cranked curtains davies deserves diaper diary diper disappointed dismantle dumbest elementary eventually expectations formula fregley general gimmicks gonna grounded growth guerrillas gupta handwriting hassling headphones height honestly hosey hovering image instruments interrupted journal language levels lionel listens loded logic luckily ma'am magazines manny marker mccoy mentioned morons must've neighborhood neighbors nickname noogies nowadays object onset parental permanent personal phys plunk popularity portrait practically practicing proves racket rd rehearsals ridiculous rodrick rodrick's ronnie rowley's sarcastic scrambling screening seating seriously shower simpler sinners speakers specifically spurt stereo technically underwear unfortunately videogame violence volume website weird worth