Title - Ramona The Brave Author: Cleary, Beverly Publisher: Harper Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre For a girl as enthusiastic about life as Ramona, starting the first grade should be easy! But with a teacher who doesn't understand her, a tattletale classmate, and a scary dog who follows her on the walk home from school, Ramona has a hard time acting like the big girl everyone expects her to be. Entertain RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1024 3.7 740 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 60 Total # of Words 3031 # of Different Words 824 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 2178 71.9% # of Hi freq words 354 43% % of Long Sentences 20.4 Low Freq occurs 141 4.7% # of Low freq words 104 12.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Blend of written/oral Table of Contents Chapters Headings Features Character traits Simple Plot Topics Family Sisters *Family & Friends *Schools & Education Relationships School Low Frequency Words advice amused amusement angrier approached asphalt audience baffled booted borrowed chagrined commercial confidence crayoning departed deserved disagree drawer eagerness embarrassed embarrassing errand exasperating fir flushed forgiving fortunately hastily headfirst heartless hesitated hollow honored ignore impatient incident indignant intensely interrupted jaunty kimona klickitat knowing label likely lingered littler longed merely motel mysterious napping narnanu nickname nostrils overcame patience peace perfumed photograph pleasant preached preaching public puss'n quimby's ramona ramona's reassuring recall reluctance reluctant responsible rough rude sawdust secure sensed sermon sermons shaken shared shoved slack slacks snooping sopping spite stunned subdued tagging tattletale trissy triumphant unable uncertainty understanding underwear unfortunately vain waggled washcloth wilted wrist