Title - Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus Author: Park, Barbara Publisher: PaperStar Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Remember when it was scary to go to school? 'Cause it was your first day and you didn't know anything. Meet Junie B. Jones, kindergartener. She's so scared of the school bus and the meanies on it that when it's time to go home, she doesn't. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 877 3.4 720 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 21 Total # of Words 4742 # of Different Words 660 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 3617 76.3% # of Hi freq words 314 47.6% % of Long Sentences 0.3 Low Freq occurs 75 1.6% # of Low freq words 35 5.3% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Inferences: Some implications Dialog: Broken dialogue 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 Features Character traits Simple Plot First Person Unusual use of vocabulary Topics Teacher/Teaching Buses Hiding *Schools & Education School Low Frequency Words aspirin cafeteria commercial compartment easels emergency fronts goin grampa gushy hollered jiggling jillion kindergarten librarian lucille's meanies missy missy's pasketti plaid purse rided rumpled shelves soiled squeezy squish squishy sweater tissues tuna unzipped velvet whishy