Title - The Hundred Penny Box Author: Mathis, Sharon Bell Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Michael loves his great-great-aunt Dew and loves to spend time with her and her beloved hundred penny box, listening to stories about each of the hundred years of her life. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1511 4.3 830 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 51 Total # of Words 3433 # of Different Words 676 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 2644 77% # of Hi freq words 326 48.2% % of Long Sentences 14.5 Low Freq occurs 52 1.5% # of Low freq words 41 6.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Features Character traits Complex character relationships Dialect/Accents Topics Age/Aging Memory/Memories *Human Body & Health *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words birthed britches congress cursing decent depression drawer drowned fore furnace gonna hollering hoping impatiently lungs miserable momma's nephew niece plank pneumonia precious prettiest prove puny reconstruction rena roseprint sewed slavery sweat that'll them's tieing tike victrola wacky waisted winging worth wrinkled