Title - The Great Gilly Hopkins Author: Paterson, Katherine Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Eleven-year-old Gilly has been stuck in more foster families than she can remember, and she's disliked them all. . So when she's sent to live with the Trotters, Gilly decides to put her sharp mind to work. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1976 4.9 900 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 55 Total # of Words 4854 # of Different Words 1254 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 3615 74.5% # of Hi freq words 535 42.7% % of Long Sentences 12.3 Low Freq occurs 319 6.6% # of Low freq words 242 19.3% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Features Character traits Topics Challenges Fears Love *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words abruptly acquaintance amongst assault assure astray bale barracuda bolster bowels brained bulldozed bureau calmly caseworker cautious comb contents contributing cooperation craned curlicues cursive curtains cushions cusses d'you delicious delinquency deserve despite dissolving dracula drawer drawers dustless elaborately emphatically ernest fanatic fault favored favoritism fim flattering flattery flinched flowered flyswatter foster galadriel giggling glance glare glossy godzilla goin gonna gorgeous gosling graying gripes gross gruesome guardian guineas halfheartedly handled hardback hefting height hell herbed hesitated housedress ignorant ignored imbecile immediately improve incident inward jeans jeez jutted kneel knob laboriously lacking leastways leave'em level lint lively lord's lowering lurched luxuries magnificent maintain mammoth manage maneuver meantime medicine meekly melvin mentally mentioned mercilessly millionth minor miz mock movement murmured muttered necessities neighborhood newman nonprofessional noted oatmeal obligingly obscenity occasional offending opposite oughta painfully palsy pardon partially passenger pasteboard pause penned photograph picket potbelly precious prickles privilege proceeded prodding professional promoted propped randolph rearrange recall recent refused religious repertory resisted response retard retarded revealing richmond righteous rimmed rough rummaged rutherford sake salvage satisfaction scarecrow scissors scrambled scuse sesame shoulda shoved shoving shrunken shuffling sincere sliding smacked smoothed snuffled social soul spotless sprang squat steadily stilt stirred straggly strands submission sundae supper's surely surrender swept swiped tangle terror theme there're thompson thoughtful thumbnail tilted tissue tonight's towelette treeless trifled trotter trotter's truly twitched uncombed underwear unfortunate unmade uphill uplifted upright vaguely vain vengeance viciously vigorously vision walrus warned weird welfare whisper whitish worth would've woulda wrinkled y'all yanked