Title - Junie B. Jones Turkeys We Have Loved and Eaten Author: Park, Barbara Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Room One is getting ready for their very own Thanksgiving feast! There’s even a contest to see which room can write the best thankful list. Only, it turns out that being thankful is harder than it looks. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 769 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 35 Total # of Words 2950 # of Different Words 650 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 2128 72.1% # of Hi freq words 285 43.8% % of Long Sentences 0.6 Low Freq occurs 93 3.2% # of Low freq words 54 8.3% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Table of Contents Chapters Features Character traits Topics Thanksgiving *Feelings, Behaviors *Holidays, Events, Cele Low Frequency Words absolutely account appreciating biscuits bluck chalk commercial conversation cranberry curiosity delicious dolt emptyish excellent fascinating freedom fullish gladys glare glop gulp gutzman herb hollered hotish involved journal journals judges knuckles lennie lennie's medium multi nipsy pause perked pilgrims pleasant rightie scary's seriously sheldon sprang squash suggestion sweatier tattletaled teensy thankfuls thoughtful turkeys wad yourselves