Title - Lucky Beans Author: Birtha, Becky Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Like so many people during the Great Depression of the 1930s, Marshall Loman's dad has lost his job. There's little money, but there are plenty of beans-in fact, Ma cooks them for supper every single night! Entertain Historical Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 589 2.9 660 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 27 Total # of Words 1243 # of Different Words 446 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 759 61.1% # of Hi freq words 198 44.4% % of Long Sentences 1.2 Low Freq occurs 66 5.3% # of Low freq words 38 8.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Character traits Integral Setting - Historical Simple problem/solution Simple Plot Topics Competition *History Counting Winning/Losing Measurement Fair play/Fairness *Math *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words alongside announced cellar complaints congratulations dover entries estimate groceries kaplan ladies loman loman's lugged mackerel marshall marshall's measure measuring mending monticello multiply neighbors peered pint pints piped pour president quart quarts reckon reveal thumping trudged unscrewed where'd whirled