Title - Henry Huggins Author: Cleary, Beverly Publisher: HarperTrophy Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Just as Henry Huggins is complaining that nothing exciting ever happens, a friendly dog sits down beside him and looks pleadingly at his ice-cream cone. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1079 3.7 760 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 43 Total # of Words 3086 # of Different Words 728 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 2293 74.3% # of Hi freq words 333 45.7% % of Long Sentences 6.7 Low Freq occurs 85 2.8% # of Low freq words 64 8.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Character traits Topics Money *Feelings, Behaviors Pets Responsibility Low Frequency Words accusingly alongside coaxed correcting curb doggoned doubtfully economy elderly exhaust fellow fingered gathering gloated grinding gulp heavier higgins hind hollow horrified how'm kidnapped klickitat kneel loosely lovingly lurched manage mccarthy missus mouthpiece operator ought particular passenger passengers patches pavement ribsy sake screetch shoved sideways siren sonny squad squealed squirmed staggered stammered streamed surely swallowed thumping timidly tonic tonsils unrolled uphill whatcha whimper whimpered whined