Title - Field Trip Fiasco Author: Danneberg, Julie Publisher: Charlesbridge Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre After the stress of her last attempt at taking her class on a field trip (seen in First Year Letters), Mrs. Hartwell has a plan for an upcoming trip to the zoo—a plan that includes lots and lots of rules. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 538 2.8 640 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 30 Total # of Words 1017 # of Different Words 402 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 560 55.1% # of Hi freq words 160 39.8% % of Long Sentences 2.2 Low Freq occurs 48 4.7% # of Low freq words 35 8.7% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Clear cause/effect Topics Teacher/Teaching Zoos Field Trips *Schools & Education Low Frequency Words absolutely aisle assigned attendance aviary bale chugged chugging congratulations curb delays distractedly eventually foolproof gross hartwell hartwell's hustled observed observers observing organized partner partnering relieved research review shuffled somersaulted sparrows splatter toweled unexpected writers zookeeper