Title - Runaway Ralph Author: Cleary, Beverly Publisher: Laurel Leaf Books Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Fed up with his timid mother and uncle and his squirmy little cousins, Ralph hops onto his toy motorcycle and zooms down the road to summer camp. It turns out camp is not all peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and fun. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1834 4.7 870 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 52 Total # of Words 3566 # of Different Words 907 Ave Word/.Sent 12 Hi Freq occurs 2487 69.7% # of Hi freq words 367 40.5% % of Long Sentences 23.4 Low Freq occurs 208 5.8% # of Low freq words 150 16.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concept: Fanciful Table of Contents Chapters Features Character development Simple Plot Topics *Feelings, Behaviors Responsibility Low Frequency Words acres amuse annoyed approaching astounded awaken awed baseboard bellboy bugle chrome chromium cigarette clumped college companions concrete constantly cooperative cousins dangling daredevil disagreeable distaste doubt eagerness elderly elevator exhilarated eyed facedown fellow flattening foothills furnished further generation generations getaway gimme gobbled gobbling grasped grasping grating grinding guiding handlebars handyman hesitated horror hovered increased independent inhaled inquire jeans joyously kiddy kleenex laughter lecture lester lighter linen lingered linoleum lint lively lobby longed luggage manage manager mantelpiece medium miniature motels motorcycles mounted mufflers mysteriously napped nevada nightly observed olive opinion particularly passenger paused perilously pesty pingpong pleasure plodded poisoned process ralph's rattling rebellion rebellious relatives remarked retired rousing rumpled scrambling scrounge scrounging scurried scuttled season shortly shoving shrilled sierra silenced situation snatched somewhat soundly speedway spite sputtering squirmy stenciled stern stirred straggled suitcases sulky sullenly summoned summons supplies tearing thistledown timid treasured trudged ungrateful vacant vacuum vigorous wearily wheeled whiskers yawned younger