Title - Just Plain Fancy Author: Polacco, Patricia Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre One day Naomi and Ruth find an abandoned egg near the road. Naomi decides this special egg must be hatched. And when it is, it's plain to see that this is no ordinary chick! Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 924 3.5 720 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 35 Total # of Words 1164 # of Different Words 464 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 719 61.8% # of Hi freq words 181 39% % of Long Sentences 6.7 Low Freq occurs 98 8.4% # of Low freq words 68 14.7% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Inferences: Some implications Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Prior Knowledge: Familiarity Features Character traits Integral Setting - Cultural/Regional Clear cause/effect Topics Cultures Differences *Life Styles *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words adjusting airing amidst amish aughtn't authority botherment community constantly doubt eased elders fault folk frolic gathering gossiped haltingly handiwork hatched hooves instructed interrupted kaleb ladle lancaster lemonade miracle miracles naomi naomi's neighboring neighbors nestled nomi ordnung organdy overheard pavement peacocks peered plainly pleasure pleasured pour questioned reins rejoiced responsibility ruffled ruth's sarai shamed shaw shun shunned speechless squealed stable stunned thread unharnessed vleckes washhouse watered whimpered whizzed womenfolk