Title - Miss Rumphius Author: Cooney, Barbara Publisher: Puffin Unicorn Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The true story of Miss Rumphius, who made the world a more beautiful place with a handful of seeds. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 598 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 35 Total # of Words 1254 # of Different Words 417 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 887 70.7% # of Hi freq words 184 44.1% % of Long Sentences 14.2 Low Freq occurs 60 4.8% # of Low freq words 39 9.4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Clear cause/effect Topics Seeds Travel/Traveling Flowers Goals *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words bapa bristling bushels cigar cockatoos curious faraway fetched figureheads flung glory headlands isle jungles knelt lotus lupine lupines masts meantime paradise patches pearl pockets prows raja's rumphius satisfaction schoolhouse skies sowing spite stony stoop surrounded tropical wandered wharves wintry