Title - Gabriela Author: Harris, Teresa E Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Gabby loves expressing herself--especially in the dance studio--but lately, poetry is becoming her art form of choice, and for good reason: Gabby struggles with stuttering, and spoken word poetry helps her speech flow more freely. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1583 4.4 840 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 114 Total # of Words 3023 # of Different Words 886 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 2194 72.6% # of Hi freq words 376 42.4% % of Long Sentences 24.4 Low Freq occurs 227 7.5% # of Low freq words 147 16.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Chapters Features Character traits Complex Problem/Solution First Person Topics Cooperation Dance/Dancing *Community Poetry Low Frequency Words adapter adjust alejandro alejandro's alternated announced applause auditorium balcony ballet beanie bolting bourree breathed bria catered challenging circuit community companies complicated concert curb curtain curtsied echoed emerged emergency empanada encore encores equipment exaggerated excellent executive exhibit expectations exposed eyed fault fluid formal founder frantic friendliest glaring grinding groped gulped halt handlebars heating hollowed imagined immediately inserted instantaneous instructed instructor interloper intimidating janitor jeans joint junior kahuna ladies laptop leggings liberty liberty's lighting literally lobby mcbride military mirrors mode motion mouthed movements naturally neon niche onstage ought panicked pas paused pausing percent perfecting performances performed permission podium poem poems poet poetry poetry's poets presence projector pulse purchase quake rehearsal rhythm riff sanchez savion scuff scuffed seventh shuffling signaling skyscraper soar speech spotlight stammered studio studio's stutter stuttering suggestion suited takeout teagan teagan's theater therapist throughout tiled tonight's turquoise uncertain unofficial views visual volume weighed whirled whisper whispers wriggled