Title - Rosie Revere, Engineer Author: Beaty, Andrea Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Rosie Revere is a book that tells the story of a shy second-grader with big dreams of becoming a great inventor. Paralyzed by the fear of failure, she learns through the gentle guidance of her great-great-aunt that the only true failure is quitting. Entertain Poetry RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 510 2.7 640 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 38 Total # of Words 808 # of Different Words 343 Ave Word/.Sent 13 Hi Freq occurs 489 60.5% # of Hi freq words 126 36.7% % of Long Sentences 19.4 Low Freq occurs 54 6.7% # of Low freq words 40 11.7% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Character traits Character development Simple Plot Rhyming Topics Experiments *Science Inventions/Inventors Discovery Low Frequency Words approached baffled chalk cheddar copter dismayed doohickeys dynamo eaves embarrassed engineer eyed failures gadgets gizmo gizmos greer's headscarf heartbeat helium hideaway horror invention inventions laughter lever lingers ohh perplexed pythons raging relation revere ridiculous sputter truly twitched wheezed whirled zookeeper