Title - Junie B. Jones and that Meanie Jim's Birthday Author: Park, Barbara Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre That meanie Jim has invited everyone in Room Nine to his birthday party on Saturday -- except Junie B.! Should she have her own birthday party six months early and not invite Jim? Or should she move to It's a Small World After All in Disneyland? Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 756 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 20 Total # of Words 1134 # of Different Words 375 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 750 66.1% # of Hi freq words 155 41.3% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 28 2.5% # of Low freq words 23 6.1% 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: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Character traits Simple Plot First Person Unusual use of vocabulary Topics Inclusion Birthdays *Family & Friends *Holidays, Events, Cele Low Frequency Words account beanie casserole dainty delicious excellent grampa gulp hollered lucille's macdonald's madam meanie moron mustache nanna pace parry puffer puffer's sponge wiener wienie