Title - Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth Author: Park, Barbara Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Junie B.'s having a rough week. First she got punishment for shooting off her mouth in kindergarten. And now she's in big trouble again! 'Cause Monday is Job Day, and Junie B. told her class that she's got the bestest job of all. Only, what the heck is it? Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 732 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 22 Total # of Words 1680 # of Different Words 487 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 1155 68.8% # of Hi freq words 208 42.7% % of Long Sentences 0.4 Low Freq occurs 31 1.8% # of Low freq words 22 4.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Chapters Features Character traits Integral Setting First Person Unusual use of vocabulary Topics Teacher/Teaching Babies Family *Careers Brothers *Family & Friends *Schools & Education School Low Frequency Words bullfighter flossing growly grumpity handcuffs hollered jailbird jangling janitor jingly kindergarten knuckle nanna neighbor's nouncement policemen practiced ruffly scaring sweater tangled winded