Title - Just Saving My Money Author: Mayer, Mercer Publisher: HarperCollins Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Little Critter learns the value of the dollar while trying to save money to buy a skateboard. Entertain Historical Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 155 1.6 200 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 12 Total # of Words 236 # of Different Words 103 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 122 51.7% # of Hi freq words 40 38.8% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 4 1.7% # of Low freq words 4 3.9% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Character traits Clear cause/effect Simple Plot First Person Present Tense Topics Money Saving Banks/Banking *Economics Low Frequency Words account lemonade manager pour