Title - Jip: His Story Author: Paterson, Katherine Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre While living on a Vermont poor farm during 1855 and 1856, Jip learns his identity and that of his mother and comes to understand how he arrived at this place. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1932 4.9 890 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 53 Total # of Words 2254 # of Different Words 794 Ave Word/.Sent 12 Hi Freq occurs 1541 68.4% # of Hi freq words 301 37.9% % of Long Sentences 23.1 Low Freq occurs 258 11.4% # of Low freq words 193 24.3% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Chapters Features Character traits Character development Integral Setting - Historical Topics *Family & Friends Low Frequency Words aggravated allocation alternatively amongst approached asylum authorities awright bedrock biblical budget bulbous careening cautious chapped citizens congregational constant contradicting cowered cruel cursing curve darkish deacon defective desperation despite discussion doused earshot eased elders ethan extracted factly fancied farm's flint folk foundling frock fully gazing gentlemen's gibberish gig gig's gingerly glinted goodrich goslings granite grateful gratitude grudgingly gypsy hades handled healthy heartless hell heroes hesitation household husky hy idjit if'n imposing injunctions institution intact jest jip jip's lacking language lengthy likely lord's lunatic lyman lyman's manager managers maple meager meaningfully mentally mortals mourning muddiest mustn't nailed nostrils obeyed obliging occasion occasionally offend operate ordinary otis overly overmuch overseer overseer's pastures peered perpetual plummeted pockmarked ponder population praised prematurely prided profits proposed protrude purse pursed quarry raving reckoned redder reins reluctance residents respectfully revenues reverend romany romanys rough rutted salary satisfactory scrawniness seldom sheldon sheldon's shivs shooing shove shoveled sickly simpleton skeptically slag slaytor sledge snatched solemnly soothingly spect speech sprang stamping stovepipe stripped studied stung suggestion sunken superior supposing sweating swept sympathy tempered thirties throsina transients trial unchristian upped urging vermont vivid warmth wavy wealthiest westward whimper whipping widow willis witnesses worthy wrinkled yanking young'un