Title - Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Author: MacDonald, Betty Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle lives in an upside-down house and smells like cookies. She was even married to a pirate once. Most of all, she knows everything about children. She can cure them of any ailment. Entertain Drama RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1649 4.5 850 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 2401 # of Different Words 641 Ave Word/.Sent 15 Hi Freq occurs 1670 69.6% # of Hi freq words 275 42.9% % of Long Sentences 39 Low Freq occurs 84 3.5% # of Low freq words 60 9.4% 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: Concrete/Simple Social Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Table of Contents Chapters Features Character traits Character development Topics Cleaning Helping Chores *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors Parents Low Frequency Words aft bawling bedmaking billowing borrow cambric chalk chandelier clumped comb convenient cruel curled curls despise dishpan drawer dungeon envious fastening foot's fore freed gaily gnarly goldy immaculate inspects interrupt jeweled lightfoot madam mention occasions orphanage piggle pouring properly remarkable saucer servant silverware slanty slidy slopwash smoothed sorrow sparkly spicy squat staircase swept tangly wag's wears wheeling whisked wiggle's wrinkle wrinkles