Title - Henry and Mudge and Annie's Good Move Author: Rylant, Cynthia Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Henry's cousin Annie is moving -- right next door to Henry! Annie likes Henry and Mudge, but she's nervous about leaving her friends, and about changing schools, and about what might happen to her things on the moving truck. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 255 2.1 510 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 26 Total # of Words 601 # of Different Words 216 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 336 55.9% # of Hi freq words 100 46.3% % of Long Sentences 2.4 Low Freq occurs 12 2% # of Low freq words 8 3.7% Subjective Criteria Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Table of Contents Bold/Italicized Words Chapters Headings Sequence of Events: Chronological Features Character traits Simple problem/solution Clear cause/effect Simple Plot Topics *Animals Helping Moving *Family & Friends Pets Low Frequency Words blotches blotchy drooled frisbee hankies imagined unloaded zillion