Title - Ramona Forever Author: Cleary, Beverly Publisher: Yearling Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Ramona's life changes the moment Howie Kemp's mysterious uncle arrives from Saudi Arabia. Howie and his sister, Willa Jean, talk only about Uncle Hobart. Ramona's mother makes secret phone calls and stops eating dessert, and Aunt Bea is hiding something, too. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1611 4.5 840 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 49 Total # of Words 3275 # of Different Words 871 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 2249 68.7% # of Hi freq words 375 43.1% % of Long Sentences 13.1 Low Freq occurs 173 5.3% # of Low freq words 126 14.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many 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 Chapters Features Character traits Character development Simple Plot Topics *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words accordion agony announced annoyance appreciated arabian astounded astride audience bellows bitterness caress churned college contraption conversation credential curious cushion determined disappointment disapproving dislike disliked disquieting dreadful embarrassed embraced entertaining eyed fashioned fault flushed furnace giddyup giddyups groaning guitar harassed hobart homecoming horrified horror hovered imaginary imagined imagining imitated imprisoned informed inhaled inquiring instructions january jean's jeans jewels junior kemps knick knowing licorice limousine longed lovingly medium meowed mission misunderstandings moneybags motioned mount mounted musical muttered naughty nephew niece objects outlet overseas paddywhack pedaled piercing plunged portland produce professional quimbys ramona ramona's reform related rigs saudi sawhorses scowl scowling screech secondhand seethed servants sideways silencing skiing smacking spite stalked strum stubborn studied suspecting temperatures tobacco truthful unfairness unfortunately unicycle upended upright viennese warehouse warnings wheeling willa youngest