Title - First Day Jitters Author: Danneberg, Julie Publisher: Charlesbridge Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Sarah Jane Hartwell has that sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach—she’s nervous and doesn’t want to start a new school year. She doesn’t know anybody, and nobody knows her. It will be awful. She just knows it. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 256 2.1 510 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 28 Total # of Words 413 # of Different Words 195 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 247 59.8% # of Hi freq words 80 41% % of Long Sentences 1.6 Low Freq occurs 11 2.7% # of Low freq words 6 3.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Character traits Simple Plot Twist ending Topics Teacher/Teaching Attitudes Fears *Feelings, Behaviors New School Low Frequency Words gushed hartwell ohh sweetheart trudged weakly