Title - Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Farm Author: MacDonald, Betty Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Ms. Piggle-Wiggle's left her upside-down town house and has moved to a farm in the country. With the help of her cows and pigs and horses, she's still curing girls and boys of their bad habits. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1708 4.6 860 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 57 Total # of Words 2089 # of Different Words 704 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 1369 65.5% # of Hi freq words 280 39.8% % of Long Sentences 14.6 Low Freq occurs 190 9.1% # of Low freq words 128 18.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Features Character traits Clear cause/effect Simple Plot Topics Attitudes Behaviors Friendship Tolerance Conflicts *Feelings, Behaviors Relationships Low Frequency Words abominate accompanied affected armloads asters bawled biscuits blug bluggy burglar busybody canasta cautiously chaise citizen confidence counterfeit crick cruel cure deliberately delicate despise drawer dreadful earnest excitedly exclusive executive extension fanchon feathering fellow fertilizer fetlock fetlock's fortunately freda frutti gopher gorman government gumdrop gumdrops gurch handkerchief happiness harroway harroway's hedge hiya honorable income injured intelligent intend invalids investments jewel lambie liar loathe longue loyal luckiest luncheon mallett malted maraschino marshmallow medicine molded mumsie neighbor orphanages overwhelming paris penitentiary perennial pineapple pinwheel playfields positive president propping restless robberies roberts rocko rude rustad scarce scarlet sensitive snobbish sparkler spectacles staggering stalks swabbing swallowed sweater sweetheart tablecloth tamped terribly trowel truthful tulips tutti upright velvet vernon vice warned warner warner's wears wembley widows winifred wintergreen wisner women's workbasket workbasket's zinnia zinnias