Title - Flip-Flop Girl Author: Paterson, Katherine Publisher: Unknown Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Wishing for a miracle that will bring her father back to life and restore her family, nine-year-old Vinnie Matthews protects her younger brothers from the bullying kids who tease him for refusing to speak and finds a needed friend in Lupe. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1619 4.5 840 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 38 Total # of Words 2881 # of Different Words 797 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 2117 73.5% # of Hi freq words 363 45.5% % of Long Sentences 10.2 Low Freq occurs 97 3.4% # of Low freq words 73 9.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Chapters Sequence of Events: Mostly chronological Mature concepts: With common experiences or clear fantasy Features Character traits Character development Complex Problem/Solution Clear cause/effect Theme Topics Teacher/Teaching Death Honesty Behaviors Family Friendship Brothers *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words bristles brownsville brownsville's bureaus c'mon cemetery collected concrete cure dingy dramatic dreary dumbest dustcovers eyed flowery funeral furious further ghosty gidget gonna grayish graysville hovering ignore imagined inventing knocking knowing lavinia lifesaver lifesavers marker mason's momma's monuments muttered owed pavement pictured piercing pleaded prison prompted rearview refused reputation rotting rouge satisfaction seriously shared shawna shawna's shove sideways smudges snatching spite sweetie sympathy terribly terror thermostat toothless torment underwear urging vinnie's watts whine wrinkles