Title - Mr. Popper's Penguins Author: Atwater, Richard and Florence Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The adventures of a house painter and his brood of high-stepping penguins, as Mr. Popper trains his band of penguins to star in a vaudeville tour. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1152 3.9 770 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 34 Total # of Words 1615 # of Different Words 527 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 1141 70.7% # of Hi freq words 226 42.9% % of Long Sentences 18.4 Low Freq occurs 79 4.9% # of Low freq words 55 10.4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concept: Fanciful Sequence of Events: Chronological Features Character development Topics *Animals Animals: Ocean *Entertainment & Fun *Family & Friends Performing Pets Birds Low Frequency Words adventures antarctic authority borrow bungalow busiest calcimine collected daresay disagreeable erect expanses expedition expeditions geographic hastily heathen himalayas housewife housewives intelligent interrupt janie ladies leopard mamma manage mending minded missionary national ninth papered pearls penguin penguins pleasant prospect proudfoot regions regretted scientist season shove smoothing society spattered spectacles stillwater stomachs thirtieth tidy untidy whiskers yawned