Title - Horrible Harry and the Kickball Wedding Author: Kline, Suzy Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre With Valentine's Day right around the corner, Harry hatches one of his bright ideas. He's going to stage a wedding to Song Lee! Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 815 3.3 700 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 25 Total # of Words 2209 # of Different Words 678 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 1461 66.1% # of Hi freq words 290 42.8% % of Long Sentences 2.1 Low Freq occurs 95 4.3% # of Low freq words 68 10% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Simple Plot First Person Topics Sports Weddings Balls Valentines Day *Family & Friends *Holidays, Events, Cele School Low Frequency Words aisle bearer blacktop blurted bogus boogie boogity borrow bursts ceremony chalk construction conversation cousin's curtain dumpster eeyew episode funnybone gimme glared gonna gross grumbling handing hopscotch hourglass invitations january kickballs kindergarten lacy lowered mackle marriage marrying mound ohh organized ourselves peered permission pinocchio pitcher's poisonous pricker private rehearsal revenge romantic rounded routine serpent shoogie shrugged soared socked specialty strolled sweat tombstones transferred unfortunately veil vessel whiffs widow yahoo