Title - The Zebra Wall Author: Henkes, Kevin Publisher: Greenwillow Books Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre When ten-year-old Adine's mother has a new baby, eccentric Aunt Irene comes to stay and shares Adine's bedroom--an event which requires a great deal of adjustment. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1878 4.8 880 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 39 Total # of Words 2419 # of Different Words 802 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 1593 65.9% # of Hi freq words 330 41.1% % of Long Sentences 6.7 Low Freq occurs 151 6.2% # of Low freq words 120 15% Subjective Criteria Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Character traits Complex character relationships Simple Plot Difficult names Topics *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors Names Low Frequency Words abdomen announced ashtray burly cafeteria calmly cigarette cigarettes colonial converted coordinated curled dangling dawdled determined dimpled dislike divorce doubt doubted doubts drawers drawn earthy expressed fastened fawn's fawns fitting flannel flicking florence flung focal forefinger frito fuchsia gary general gonna grimaced grudge guarantee harboring hardware heather hues husky imaginary imitation interrupted jeans lengths lighter lighting liver logical maternity melissa metaphors midway milwaukee mobile mural nursery opinion originally outlines penciled perched phyllis plaid positive potential pour preferred pregnant private purplish railing recently referred refrigerator reluctantly repainted resulting revving ricocheted roland sampling sateen sauce shaving shavings shrugged similies singsong soothed stenciled stock strand stubborn sturdy substituting sunbeam supervision surrounded swelling temporarily terribly tupperware various vivid voicing winking worth younger