Title - Mrs Stoker is a Joker Author: Gutman, Dan Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Mr. Klutz is retiring! Vice principal Mrs. Jafee thinks it’s her time to shine, but Dr. Carbles has hired someone else for the job - a stand-up comedian. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 982 3.6 740 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 61 Total # of Words 3090 # of Different Words 779 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 2148 69.5% # of Hi freq words 340 43.6% % of Long Sentences 1.7 Low Freq occurs 157 5.1% # of Low freq words 91 11.7% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Chapters Footnotes Features Simple Plot First Person Topics Teacher/Teaching Jokes Principals *Schools & Education Low Frequency Words according accountant allegiance announced announcement applause assembly blacktop brownnosers carbles comedian comedy congratulate curtain custodian decision dramatic drowned easter education electricity electrocuted era floes formation freaking future glued gonna grocery hilarious hollering honor hovered incompetent interview introduce jafee kickflip kindergartner klutz klutz's lazar level librarian loudspeaker lunchroom mandatory mentry microphone mosquitoes muttered nah national nude owe peace pleasure pledged poetry president principals pringle pringled professional realize replacement retire retirement retiring rotors ryan seriously skateboarder slobbering sniveling social stoker studies supermarket tissue tissues vacations vice wears weird weirdest wheeled yanking youth zombie