Title - Junie B. Jones Is a Beauty Shop Guy Author: Park, Barbara Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Junie B. wants to be a beauty shop guy when she grows up. But first she needs a little practice. And a few volunteers. Like her bunny slippers. And her dog. And maybe even . . . herself? Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 914 3.5 720 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 22 Total # of Words 3061 # of Different Words 681 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 2219 72.5% # of Hi freq words 289 42.4% % of Long Sentences 0.2 Low Freq occurs 110 3.6% # of Low freq words 70 10.3% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Chapters Headings Features Character traits Clear cause/effect Simple Plot First Person Topics Learning Behaviors Helping *Careers Low Frequency Words accidentally account apparently appliance appointment baldies beautifulest client conditioned contagious curb drawer dunking enjoyable excellent fault fibbing fluffing fortune fuzzies gladys glory gotta grampa growed gutzman hanged holded hollered itchy loveliest madam maxine nightie nursery pleasant plumbing positive practicing privacy pumpy purse recognize recommended refrigerator ruffled scissors shaked shutting singed smoothed smoothie snatched snipped snipping soaky softie spinny squealy suspicious sweeped teensy theirselves thinked tippytoed tippytoes velvet volunteers yawn zippity