Title - Rules Author: Lord, Cynthia Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Twelve-year-old Catherine just wants a normal life. Which is near impossible when you have a brother with autism and a family that revolves around his disability. Persuade Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2410 5.6 960 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 62 Total # of Words 3388 # of Different Words 1008 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 2498 73.7% # of Hi freq words 422 41.9% % of Long Sentences 19.1 Low Freq occurs 162 4.8% # of Low freq words 130 12.9% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No 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: Abstract/Complex Social Chapters Sequence of Events: Chronological Mature Concepts: With some uncommon experiences Features Character traits Character development Complex Problem/Solution Simple Plot First Person Present Tense Topics Attitudes Challenges Appearances Words Handicaps Tolerance Brothers Rules *Human Body & Health *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words advisory aisle antiques appointment appointments assume autism blotchy bowman bowman's burp cellar cellars chasing circling clinic communication complicated conversation corridor crawling crude curled curves cushions dangle david'd david'll drawn earring earrings egrets familiar fidgets flickers flush fray friendlier glance glancing gotta guitar handing hellos humor imagined independent jeans jeez kneels knuckle language magazines marshes mattress melissa melissa's messages midstroke morehouse must've musty neighborhood occupational osprey otherwise ounce ourselves outline overcast overlapping parental parlor perched photograph photographs possibilities potter previews propped quarrels rated realtor receptionist recognize reddish refuse restaurants rough seagulls sensitive series shingled shoreline shriek silvery sketchbook sleepover slump smoothing speech splashy staircase strands streetlights strutting surefire syndrome tangy therapist therapy tingly tour trampoline twitch tying vacancy vinyl violence waking waterfront wayward wears whisper who'd winging wrinkled wrist year'll yellowed younger