Title - Junie B. Jones First Grader Author: Park, Barbara Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Being in first grade means getting used to a lot of changes. Like a whole new classroom. And a whole new teacher. And a whole new bunch of strange children. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 826 3.3 710 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 22 Total # of Words 3078 # of Different Words 705 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 2259 73.4% # of Hi freq words 317 45% % of Long Sentences 0.4 Low Freq occurs 114 3.7% # of Low freq words 75 10.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Table of Contents Chapters Features Topics Writing Fears Drawing Words Mistakes Glasses *Human Body & Health *Schools & Education Low Frequency Words accidentally allegiance annoyed assignment attendance basis bulletins capitals chalkboard chenille curious daddies diaper disappointments dos drooly embarrassed excellent familiar flutterflies fortune grampas gulp herb hie hola hollered jell journal journals kindergarten languages lennie lowered lucille's madam mentioned muscle mustache nanna neighbor organizing piper pledge pointish precious prickly private puncture recognize rhyme roomful ruffled shalt sheldon shenanigans shrug smoothed sounding spikish sprang squealed squinted squishy straightish strollers stumped tres wears whoops wrinkled wrinkling yanked yoot yourselves