Title - Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic Author: MacDonald, Betty Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle loves everyone, and everyone loves her right back. The children love her because she is lots of fun. Their parents love her because she can cure children of absolutely any bad habit. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1612 4.5 840 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 100 Total # of Words 2433 # of Different Words 720 Ave Word/.Sent 12 Hi Freq occurs 1652 67.9% # of Hi freq words 295 41% % of Long Sentences 21.4 Low Freq occurs 126 5.2% # of Low freq words 90 12.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Inferences: Several Implications Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concept: Fanciful Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Table of Contents Chapters Features Character traits Simple problem/solution Topics Feelings/Emotions Words Behaviors Family *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words absently absentminded addition aggrieved anxious appliances bannister bard bilious burnt cellar cinnamon comb convulsions crumpet cure currant daddies dicky doubled drawn drooled embarrassed evident furnace gagging gasping glare gnawed groping icicle imagination innocent irritable jostled knitted lapis laughter lazuli lighthearted listens looped luckiest lun matson mirth motions naturally nudged o'toole obediently occurs pane paroxysm pastime performance piggle powders prentiss progress purposefully putty raisin ruh's saiders sauce scarf splotchy spout stable staggering stall stickiness stock stony sugar's supervise survey tannish toffee trait unfortunately unison vanilla ward warty wheeling wiggle's wilfred wormy