Title - Madeline Author: Bemelmans, Ludwig Publisher: Viking Press Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Madeline, smallest and naughtiest of the 12 little charges of Miss Clavel, wakes up one night with an attack of appendicitis. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 297 2.2 540 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 33 Total # of Words 433 # of Different Words 205 Ave Word/.Sent 13 Hi Freq occurs 258 59.6% # of Hi freq words 80 39% % of Long Sentences 22.6 Low Freq occurs 9 2.1% # of Low freq words 8 3.9% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Simple Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Rhyming Unconventional punctuation Topics Body Children Doctors Hospitals Foreign Country *Human Body & Health Low Frequency Words appendix danton dialed dollhouse paris solemn tiptoeing troubling