Title - The Year of Billy Miller Author: Henkes, Kevin Publisher: Greenwillow Books Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Award-winning, nationally bestselling author Kevin Henkes introduces second-grader Billy Miller in this fast-paced and funny story about friendship, sibling rivalry, and elementary school. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1312 4.1 800 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 41 Total # of Words 3119 # of Different Words 920 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 2222 71.2% # of Hi freq words 409 44.5% % of Long Sentences 6 Low Freq occurs 153 4.9% # of Low freq words 124 13.5% 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 Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Table of Contents Sequence of Events: Chronological Features Character traits Character development Topics Teacher/Teaching Fears Learning *Feelings, Behaviors *Schools & Education Performing Low Frequency Words according beowulf breakthrough celebrities cello challenge charging constant contents cotter critically currently descended dewdrop dilapidated disappointed distorted drawn driftwood elementary embarrass embedded emster eyeing fascinating fashioned fiery flourish fluffing flushed future giggling glared glittery gnarled gotta growth grungy gulp gumdrop habitats henderson highlight hoisted ignored image imitation independent instantly invisible journal journals kindergarten laughter lemony lowered manage markers megaphone megaphones mesmerized minnesota motion motor mount movement nation nearing neighbors o'keeffe objects original ornament overheard pace paperback paradise particularly paused pedestal penetrating pleasing plucked plunged plush prejudice preoccupied public quieted raindrop recognize recognized reflection relatives reread resonant revving rippled rotated rowdy rumbly rummage schoolmates sculptures shrugged shuffled silver's smoothed snowdrop spouts stating statue strides sweater tabletop throughout tingle toll tuttle utterly vacuums wandered wavy whispers