Title - Lazy Lions, Lucky Lambs Author: Giff, Patricia Reilly Publisher: Yearling Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre March is the worst month for Richard Best, it's report card time and if he doesn't get good grades he might be left back again. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 978 3.6 740 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 17 Total # of Words 3450 # of Different Words 759 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 2379 69% # of Hi freq words 349 46% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 86 2.5% # of Low freq words 54 7.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Chapters Features Character traits Simple Plot Topics Writing Challenges *Feelings, Behaviors *Schools & Education Low Frequency Words aisle astronaut blurry chalk chalkboard coatroom diamond diamonds drawer expelled grunted holly's inched jeans leef lining loos looseleaf magnifying paris partners polk polk's pounce project raisins richard's scarf schoolyard scrambled scrunched secretary seventeenth sniffled social spiderwebs strictest studies substitute swallowed sweater sweaters sweeten tamer's tamers terrific troublemakers typewriter ugliest wrestlers wrestling wrinkled yawned yawning yeow