Title - The Unwilling Umpire Author: Roy, Ron Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The whole town has turned out to watch the Green Lawn women challenge the men—and to see Mr. Pocket’s prized baseball collection. But sometime during the game, the balls are stolen! The police suspect the umpire of foul play. Can Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose prove he’s innocent, or is it strike three for the Green Lawn ump? Entertain Mystery RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 946 3.5 730 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 33 Total # of Words 3130 # of Different Words 812 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 2069 66.1% # of Hi freq words 353 43.5% % of Long Sentences 1.5 Low Freq occurs 121 3.9% # of Low freq words 76 9.4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Chapters Features Topics Appearances Honesty Problem Solving *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words allergies allergy aluminum announced announcement challenge college crouched dialed disappointed disappointment drawer duncan elderly fallon fallon's fielded fielders firefighter fiving foul gonna headband hon housing internet jogged joyride keene ladies librarian linkletter linkletter's lousy lunged mackleroy medicine monitor motioning numb o'leary observed occupied online openmouthed pause penobscot pocket's positions public purse raising related results rounding shrugged soared spiky straggled sugar's swallowed territory thundered trudged unkenholz unkenholzes volunteered weird whipped whistling why'd women's worth yer ys yubuy zinged