Title - Miss Malarkey Doesn't Live in Room 10 Author: Finchler, Judy Publisher: Walker and Company Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre What could be more surprising than finding out your teacher has a life outside school? This book celebrates kids' comic misunderstandings about the private lives of teachers. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 225 2.0 490 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 327 # of Different Words 174 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 187 57.2% # of Hi freq words 77 44.3% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 1 0.3% # of Low freq words 1 0.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Simple Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Simple language Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Oral/Natural Inferences: Some implications Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features First Person Topics Teacher/Teaching *Feelings, Behaviors Relationships School Low Frequency Words cafeteria