Title - Football Friends
Author: Marzollo, Jean, Dan, and Dave
Publisher: Scholastic

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
Freddy is competitive, combative, and often ends up fighting when he plays touch football. An understanding principal sets realistic rules about fighting and helps Freddy and his friend Mark select even teams while Freddy's teammates help him use his anger to his advantage. Entertain Realistic Fiction
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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407 2.5 610 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 22 Total # of Words 1131 # of Different Words 349
Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 694 61.4% # of Hi freq words 153 43.8%
% of Long Sentences 0.5 Low Freq occurs 12 1.1% # of Low freq words 11 3.2%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Inferences: Some implications
Dialog: Broken dialogue
Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker
Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Multiple phrases
Text structure: Blend of written/oral
Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social
Features
Simple problem/solution
Topics
Sports
Teasing
Self Control
Friendship
Games
*Feelings, Behaviors
Low Frequency Words
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