Title - Junie B. Jones Boss of Lunch Author: Park, Barbara Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Something very wonderful is happening to Junie B. And it’s called—hurray, hurray!—she gets to help Mrs. Gutzman in the school kitchen for a day! And that means getting her own pair of brand-new plastic hand mitts to wear! And a hair net! Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 764 3.2 690 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 21 Total # of Words 3145 # of Different Words 696 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 2283 72.6% # of Hi freq words 304 43.7% % of Long Sentences 0.2 Low Freq occurs 112 3.6% # of Low freq words 55 7.9% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Chapters Features Character traits Integral Setting Topics Behaviors Food Helping Conflicts *Schools & Education Low Frequency Words account allergic annoyed apparently birdlets cafeteria chicklets delicioso delicious disappointed ducklets dumbest eaglet eaglets excellent gem gladys gleamy grampa gulp gushed gutzman herb herb's hoagie hoagies hollered hygiene journal journals kindergarten lck lennie loudish lunches miracle muy nature noonish nutritious owlets permission pooey professional recognize salami scary's shared sheldon shrugged squirmy swallowed tappy tattletale thermos uncomfortable