Title - The Whipping Boy Author: Fleischman, Sid Publisher: Reading A-Z Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Jemmy, once a poor boy living on the streets, now lives in a castle. As the whipping boy, he bears the punishment when Prince Brat misbehaves. Entertain Fairy Tales RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1539 4.4 830 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 28 Total # of Words 1898 # of Different Words 720 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 1225 64.5% # of Hi freq words 262 36.4% % of Long Sentences 4.7 Low Freq occurs 169 8.9% # of Low freq words 143 19.9% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Character traits Character development Integral Setting - Historical Simple problem/solution Dialect/Accents Topics *History Princes/Princesses Behaviors Friendship Kings/Queens *Citizenship & Laws *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors Poverty Low Frequency Words accounts astonishment awfulness ballad bawl bellows breeches cageful cleaver clod cobbled contrary contrite defiantly determined drafty dreadful duds dunno echo echoed edged educate escaped exasperation exploits eyed faddled ferrets fiercest flyswatter footman freedom fully furious gallows garlic gazed ghostly gimme glance gloat gory greased halter haws height heir highwayman holed hollow hopelessly horace humbled insolent king'll knights ladies lantern laughter likely lords lordship lowered manservant mischief moat mounted murderer muttered nohow obliged peacock piped pish plucked pockets positively powdered pure ragged raising rascal rattleboned reckon reckoned rough roused royal ruffian runaways saddling scalped scowl scragged sellers sewer sewers shoving shrug shrugged skinned smirking snickered soared spanked sparrows spectacles spied spite squawks stable stairway stockings strayed swelling swept swirled thinkin' thrash thrashed thrashing toothed turnip tutor tutor's unhorsed upright velvet verses villains waitin walkin wherein whipped whipping whippings who'd wicker witted worse'n yelp yowl