Title - Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business Author: Park, Barbara Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre It's pooey on B-A-B-I-E-S until Junie B. finds out that her new dumb old baby brother is a big fat deal. Her two bestest friends are giving her everything they own just to see him. Maybe she can bring him to school on Pet Day. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 822 3.3 700 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 1845 # of Different Words 470 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 1372 74.4% # of Hi freq words 216 46% % of Long Sentences 0.4 Low Freq occurs 49 2.7% # of Low freq words 32 6.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little 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 Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Chapters Features Character traits Simple Plot Metaphors Unusual use of vocabulary Topics Babies Mistakes Birth *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors School Low Frequency Words cafeteria cigar drooly fellas freshener frigerator gonna grampa growly gutzman hidey holded hollered kindergarten knobs magination missy missy's nursery ourselves owed owes pasting pewie piggie piggyback pology scrunched stewie sticked weensy wrinkly