Title - The Penderwicks Author: Birdsall, Jeanne Publisher: Knopf Paperback Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother Entertain Adventure RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1617 4.5 840 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 37 Total # of Words 4021 # of Different Words 1094 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 2858 71.1% # of Hi freq words 471 43.1% % of Long Sentences 14.5 Low Freq occurs 206 5.1% # of Low freq words 155 14.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Chapters Headings Features Character traits Character development Integral Setting Complex Problem/Solution Simple Plot Topics Vacations Courage Friendship *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words amazement apologetically arietinum arundel available balconies biscuit borealis botany boundary butteriest camouflage cangaroo carriage complaints concentrate creamiest crouched crouching curve cypripedium delicious demonstrate devour discouraged discussion dorado dramatic drawers elegant elementary embroidered estate exhausted exploring familiar fault fenced fetched flattening flowering formal fretted fridays furiously future gagging gardener gardening geigers general geraniums glare glorious graceful guarded hauling hedge hedges honored hypnotize imagined imitating immediately insane interrupted jeans jotting jutted kidnapper landlord latin lavender linnaea lovable luggage luxury madding mansion massachusetts moments mondays muffled murder muttering organized painfully particularly passage pavilion peered penderwick penderwick's penderwicks perched piling pillars poplar poplars puked raged readied recently refrigerator reluctantly rental rescued rescues ritual rosy rounded rummaged sabrina satisfied schedule series seventh shoved skye's snatched snooty snuffled sparkling sparrow spending squashed staked statue statues sturdy suitcases sunken swampy symphony terraces tifton tifton's touchy transferring troublemakers tumbledown turrets unfortunately unknown unseen untidy venus violence vomity wandered weary wheelbarrow wildwood younger