Title - See You Later, Procrastinator Author: Espeland, Pamela, Elizabeth Verdick Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Full-color cartoons and kid-friendly text teach kids how to get motivated, stay motivated, and get things done. Inform Informational RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1431 4.2 810 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 37 Total # of Words 3086 # of Different Words 855 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 2339 75.8% # of Hi freq words 350 40.9% % of Long Sentences 10 Low Freq occurs 149 4.8% # of Low freq words 117 13.7% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Simple graphics supplementary to text comprehension Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Formal Captions Inserts/Side bars Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Table of Contents Index Headings Features Present Tense Topics Attitudes Values Behaviors Habits *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words accomplished activities allowance announced anticrastination assumed blase bonus buh bummed chasing college commercial commercials complicated controller counselor dawdle dawdler decent decision dialing diapers discouraged domino dominos dread dreaded eeny effect encourage failures fitting fizzle freaked goofs grossed healthy impress ingredient inventor investigation junior knowing knuckles laughter levels lightens likely major majorly meeny mentioning miney mini miserable mission model motivator motivators muscle nabbing nag nation neighborhood neighbors opposite optional organization organized panic pardon perfection pitiful pleasure positive president presidents pressure prime priorities prioritize procrasti procrastinate procrastinating procrastinator progress project projects putter reasons relative responsibilities responsibility reward salami sayonara schedule seventh sitcom sizzle slowpoke sprouts stall stressed sundae sweatshirt technique terrific thwack uneasily volunteer wealthy weighed weird whine worthy