Title - Junie B. Jones Has a Monster Under Her Bed Author: Park, Barbara Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre There's no such thing as monsters. Mother and Daddy even said so. But then why is there monster drool on Junie B.'s pillow? Oh, no! What if she really does have a monster under her bed? Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 899 3.4 720 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 24 Total # of Words 2665 # of Different Words 640 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 2024 75.9% # of Hi freq words 299 46.7% % of Long Sentences 0.5 Low Freq occurs 59 2.2% # of Low freq words 41 6.4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Inferences: Some implications Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Character traits Simple Plot First Person Unusual use of vocabulary Topics Monsters Fears Photography *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words admiring aspirin biggie cafeteria cheesie commercial compartment dottie fitting fronts fusstration grampa gushy hollered jillion kindergarten lavender librarian meanies model nanna pasketti plaid practices prove puffer purse racket seventh shortie smoothed soiled squish squishy swallow sweater tissues tyrannosaurus unzipped velvet whishy