Title - Say Cheese
Author: Giff, Patricia Reilly
Publisher: Yearling

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
Everyone is excited that the school year is almost over. Emily is lonely because she does not have a best friend. At the class picnic, Emily wanders off with Uni, her unicorn. Before she knows it, she's lost and can't find her way back. Entertain Realistic Fiction
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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822 3.3 700 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 15 Total # of Words 3441 # of Different Words 742
Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 2386 69.3% # of Hi freq words 340 45.8%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 60 1.7% # of Low freq words 44 5.9%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: No support
Dialog: Multiple speakers
Dialog: Broken dialogue
Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker
Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Multiple phrases
Text structure: Story/Poem
Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social
Chapters
Features
Character traits
Simple Plot
Topics
Friendship
*Family & Friends
Relationships
Low Frequency Words
breathed coatroom drawer foil frosted grant greeny height jeans knotted
lent librarian linda's looseleaf monday's monitor nah owe owed paris
partner partners pockets puquing raising schoolyard section shoelaces skillions skink
sliding smoothed snaggle squinted squished stewart stretchy tebbits timothy's unicorn
wack weighed yanked zillion