Title - The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo Author: Blume, Judy Publisher: Bradbury Press Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Lately second-grader Freddy Dissel has that left-out kind of feeling. Life can be lonely when you're the middle kid in the family. Entertain Historical Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 501 2.7 640 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 22 Total # of Words 1480 # of Different Words 400 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 1009 68.2% # of Hi freq words 198 49.5% % of Long Sentences 0.8 Low Freq occurs 32 2.2% # of Low freq words 14 3.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Character development Simple Plot Topics Challenges Children Fears Family Performing Relationships Low Frequency Words audience auditorium dissel figures gumber hollered matson matson's neighbors nursery practiced ruffled sponge younger