Title - Ramona the Pest Author: Cleary, Beverly Publisher: Avon Camelot Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Ramona Quimby is thrilled to be starting kindergarten. She likes a little boy named Davy so much she wants to kiss him, and she loves Susan's beautiful curls so much she wants to pull them to see them boing. Her teacher even promises her a present just for sitting still! Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1065 3.7 750 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 3129 # of Different Words 719 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 2274 72.7% # of Hi freq words 325 45.2% % of Long Sentences 20.3 Low Freq occurs 130 4.2% # of Low freq words 84 11.7% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Chapters Features Character traits Simple Plot Topics Teacher/Teaching *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors *Schools & Education Relationships School Low Frequency Words admiration approaching assigned baffled cleverness cloakroom coaxed convinced critically curls davy dawnzer departed disappointed distinctly earnest embarrassed fashioned fusses genuinely glenwood glued haired hoping imaginary instant instantly interrupted intersection introduce introduced jeans kemps kindergarten klickitat knowing longed mention misunderstanding mouthful mulligan mulligan's murmured naturally neighborhood nursery observed ordinary particular pausing pester pestering poppersville proceeded proved puzzling raising ramona ramona's recently reddish reluctantly remarked reproachfully rumored scornful scowled service shovel slowpoke soared springy squirmed stroller syllable tearful temporary uneasily unstick urged willa worth youngest zwieback