Title - Ellen Tebbits Author: Cleary, Beverly Publisher: Dell Yearling Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Ellen Tebbits has a secret that she'll never share with anyone. That is, until she meets Austine and discovers that Austine has the same secret! Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1478 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 43 Total # of Words 3801 # of Different Words 883 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 2724 71.7% # of Hi freq words 380 43% % of Long Sentences 12.8 Low Freq occurs 178 4.7% # of Low freq words 134 15.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Features Simple Plot Topics Dance/Dancing Secrets *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors School Low Frequency Words accompanist alarmingly amazement amused announcement annoyed anxious anxiously appropriate assume assumed audience ballet bass bulge bulgy circular clinking critically desperately despised determined discreet dismiss eyed fashioned feverishly fiercely fitting flatly flounced footed forgiven frantically garment garments glance glared glumly gracefully grasped gratefully gunny hardwood honestly horrified horror imitated instantly interrupted interrupting jambe jangle janitor's jingling keyboard laced lacing lengthen leotards lightly lowered mentioned mirrors miserable miserably motion motionless movement movements mulford natured neared necked neckerchief neighborhood noisily otis panties paused payless piling plaid positions practiced practicing praised pupil purpose purse relieved required rhapsody rigid rond rotating rude sailors sateen scampered scraggly scuff sideways sliding snatching sorrier splendid spofford sprang spurs starched startled studio surely swallowed sweater tebbits terrified tillamook triumphantly tulle unbuttoned uncomfortable underwear unfasten union unrolled untangling untidy vaguely veterans waistline whisper yanked