Title - Rumble Thumble Boom! Author: Hines, Anna Grossnickle Publisher: Greenwillow Books Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Everyone describes thunder in a different way, but "I say it's loud!" as a child and his dog wheedle their way under the covers with Mommy and Daddy when the thunder loudly booms outside. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 209 2.0 470 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 18 Total # of Words 293 # of Different Words 124 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 132 45.1% # of Hi freq words 42 33.9% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 4 1.4% # of Low freq words 2 1.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Inferences: Some implications Features Character traits First Person Present Tense Topics *Weather Dogs Fears Family Storms Night Noises Low Frequency Words ninepins whines