Title - Get Ready for Second Grade, Amber Brown Author: Danziger, Paula Publisher: Penguin Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Amber Brown is excited to be starting second grade--and a little nervous, too. But Amber Brown decides she's ready for whatever happens, and second grade had better be ready for Amber Brown! Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 481 2.7 630 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 34 Total # of Words 1473 # of Different Words 457 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 986 66.9% # of Hi freq words 175 38.3% % of Long Sentences 3.6 Low Freq occurs 47 3.2% # of Low freq words 33 7.2% Subjective Criteria Dialog: Multiple speakers Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Simple Plot First Person Topics Teacher/Teaching Fears Classrooms *Schools & Education Low Frequency Words absolutely alien burpton capitals chalk charged daniels electricity electron foreign fredrich gifford ignore lightbulb lightbulbs naomi ourselves patches pendant recite respectful roboman romano sanchez scabulous schroeder schwartz simmons socket supplies unzip vinnie's wrestling