Title - Dicey's Song Author: Voight, Cynthia Publisher: Addison-Wesley Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre When Momma abandoned Dicey Tillerman and her three siblings in a mall parking lot and was later traced to an asylum where she lay unrecognizing, unknowing, she left her four children no choice but to get on by themselves. Entertain Adventure RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1636 4.5 850 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 131 Total # of Words 3139 # of Different Words 833 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 2320 73.9% # of Hi freq words 352 42.3% % of Long Sentences 12.6 Low Freq occurs 127 4% # of Low freq words 102 12.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Chapters Features Character traits Character development Simple Plot Mood/tone Topics Work Attitudes Family Grandparents *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors Responsibility School Low Frequency Words advised aisles allowance allowances announced approaching approved assignments assured bail barren bosom branched breasts butcher concerned convenient conversation convinced convincing cooperate costing countertop courted crucial curled curving deceiving dicey dicey's dignified dunes dunno embarrassed enamel enthusiasm fallow flattery fractions grimy groceries grocery gunwales handsome hankered haunted hazel hesitated hunkered illogical increase inspection judge lazily marsh mattered maybeth maybeth's mottled mulberry naked nowhere objected overgrown particularly patched patient pouring provincetown relapsed retarded rinsed sailboat satisfied sauce seventh shallow shelves shoelaces shoveled shrugged shrunk slicked spading spattered strands streaked stripped supermarkets suspected sweat that'll theory tillerman tillermans tote trial turpentine tydings unmarked unwashed where'd