Title - The Big Break Author: McDonald, Megan Publisher: American Girl Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Julie Albright is dealing with big changes since her parents' divorce. When she finds out that her new school has a basketball team, life starts looking up - until the coach tells her girls aren't allowed to play. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2448 5.7 970 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 32 Total # of Words 3007 # of Different Words 965 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 2156 71.7% # of Hi freq words 417 43.2% % of Long Sentences 7 Low Freq occurs 152 5.1% # of Low freq words 116 12% 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 Inferences: Several Implications Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Chapters Headings Prior Knowledge: Basic understanding. Mature Concepts: With some uncommon experiences Features Character traits Complex Problem/Solution Topics Challenges Determination Boys/Girls Fair play/Fairness Basketball Goals *Movement & Sports Moving *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words albright aluminum announced annoyed backflip binder blackboards borrow c'mon capitals cartwheels centimeters confident converted curious curlers cursive curtains customers demerit demerits divorce doodled dreamily eiffel elementary est eventually exaggerated exotic farnsworth flitting flowered foil footlocker fortune freckles funnies gazed geraniums gladrags gonna groovy gymnastics haight handbags handmade handshake horoscope imagined imagining instantly ivy ivy's jeans kindergarten knotted labor lampshade laundry leftovers legged level lob macaroni marker markers mein metric moments neighborhood nutmeg nuzzling olden patched paused peered peering pictured poufy president prism private purses pyramid racket routine sagging sanchez scornful scowled sierra skyscraper slurp snickering snuffled social sounding squirmed stairway stewart straighten studies sweater takeout timey tracy twittered velvet vista volunteer warned whiskers whooped wiry zucchini