Title - The Cool Bean Author: John, Jory Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Everyone knows the cool beans. They’re so cool. And then there’s the uncool has-bean . . . Always on the sidelines, one bean unsuccessfully tries everything he can to fit in with the crowd—until one day the cool beans show him how it’s done. Entertain Persuasive RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 404 2.5 610 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 20 Total # of Words 670 # of Different Words 287 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 428 63.9% # of Hi freq words 115 40.1% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 21 3.1% # of Low freq words 19 6.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Oral/Natural Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Character development First Person Topics Competition Challenges Self Esteem Behaviors Friendship *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words cafeteria confidence gesture guitar kindness lunches miraculous nowhere officially olden shred slicked somebodies strutted superheroes swagger swaggered throughout uncool