Title - The Outsiders Author: Hinton, S.E. Publisher: Puffin Unicorn Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre In Ponyboy's world there are two types of people. There are the Socs, the rich society kids who get away with anything. Then there are the greasers, like Ponyboy, who aren't so lucky. Entertain Adventure RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2230 5.3 930 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 73 Total # of Words 3310 # of Different Words 941 Ave Word/.Sent 14 Hi Freq occurs 2527 76.3% # of Hi freq words 415 44.1% % of Long Sentences 27.4 Low Freq occurs 208 6.3% # of Low freq words 156 16.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Chapters Features Character traits Character development Complex character relationships Complex plot First Person Dialect/Accents Topics *Life Styles *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors Relationships Low Frequency Words abbreviation accepted aching acquired alcohol asset bawl bawling bleaches bleedin blondes blur cheekbones combed complicated content cowlick curled curse cussed customers dally darrel darry darry's determined disgrace drawn drunks editorials elfish fault foolishly gangs gasping gonna greased greaser greasers greenish grizzly grudge handkerchief handled handsome handsomer hatred hauling heaved heavily hence hollering hurriedly impatiently inspecting instantly irresistibly jeans junior knit lied lively loned loping lotion lynx madras manages mathews medium merely mugged muscular muttered nape neighborhood newman occurred opposite organized ourselves palms personality perspiration pockets ponyboy public quivering randle rarities reckless recklessly reckon reddened reputation respect rival rivalry rodeos rough sake sensitive separates shaggy shaving shepard's shirttails shoplifting shouldered sideburns slimmer slouched slugged smarting social socials society socs soda's sodapop sodapop'll souped southwest specialty specific squared stations stocky suffocate surrounded suspicious swearing sweating swirls switchblade sympathetic tagalong thoughtful tiber tightened tobacco tufts uncomfortable undisturbed unfathomable vacant warfare whipping wilder winston wisecracker wisps worth younger youngest