Title - Junie B. Jones Loves Handsome Warren Author: Park, Barbara Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre There's a new boy in kindergarten, and guess what? He's the handsomest guy Junie B. has ever seen. She and Lucille and that Grace all want him for a boyfriend. Only, he thinks Junie B. is a nutball. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1042 3.7 750 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 16 Total # of Words 2632 # of Different Words 608 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 1924 73.1% # of Hi freq words 280 46.1% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 74 2.8% # of Low freq words 40 6.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Chapters Features Character traits Simple Plot First Person Unusual use of vocabulary Topics Boys/Girls Friendship *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors School Low Frequency Words assignment chasing commandments commercial curious drooly gonna grampa gulp handsome handsomer handsomest holded hollered introduce jazzied kindergarten lacy ladies lucille's madam meanie nanna neighbor personal positive practically ricardo sagging scissors security shooing sparkly squealy squinted suspicious tangled trampling twirling warren