Title - Marianne's Grandmother Author: Egger, Bettina Publisher: Bradbury Press Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre After her grandmother's funeral, Marianne remembers all the fun she had playing with her grandmother and listening to her grandmother's stories Entertain Narrative RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 186 1.9 340 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 20 Total # of Words 372 # of Different Words 170 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 242 65.1% # of Hi freq words 77 45.3% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 6 1.6% # of Low freq words 5 2.9% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Oral/Natural Inferences: Some implications Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features First Person Topics Storytelling Remembering Death Family Grandparents *Feelings, Behaviors Relationships Low Frequency Words funeral material sewn swans younger