Title - Toys Go Out Author: Jenkins, Emily Publisher: Yearling Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Together is best for these three best friends. Together they look things up in the dictionary, explore the basement, and argue about the meaning of life. And together they face dogs, school, television commercials, the vastness of the sea, and the terrifying bigness of the washing machine. Entertain RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1094 3.8 760 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 56 Total # of Words 3064 # of Different Words 838 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 2163 70.6% # of Hi freq words 363 43.3% % of Long Sentences 13.5 Low Freq occurs 157 5.1% # of Low freq words 104 12.4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Blend of written/oral Chapters Headings Features Topics Toys Appearances Learning Discovery *Fictional Ideas/Charac Definitions Low Frequency Words artificial banquets barrette buh bumpity calming calmly chandeliers comer commercials confesses contraption coughs curiously curls diamonds doubt eared embarrassed familiar fidgety fiercer furry groceries grumped grumphs habitat hedgehog hedgehogs herd herds hungrier icicles importantly ingredients interrupting kindly leftover liquid lumphy lumphy's magnifying marinade material meanings medicine nah operas panic particularly plunk plush pollen polymeri positioning properly realizes rodent rumbly schoolbooks schoolroom separate shaggy shelves shorn shown skitter sniffle soothes spines spiny squeakier squinch stingray stingray's stingrays storybooks suggests suitable sunning surges swallow thorough tiddle tiniest tofu trills tuk tundra uncertainly uncomfortable unfamiliar waking walruses warned whatever's whiny whispers whistles windowsill wonders woolly woosh