Title - Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots Author: Dadey, Debbie - Marcia Thornton Jones Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The third grade at Bailey Elementary was very hard to handle. Most teachers quit - and moved far away - after trying to teach them. But Mrs. Jeepers was different. No one ever dared make her mad - because whenever they did, the strangest things would happen... Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1061 3.7 750 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 26 Total # of Words 2669 # of Different Words 797 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 1832 68.6% # of Hi freq words 343 43% % of Long Sentences 2.7 Low Freq occurs 133 5% # of Low freq words 96 12% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Inferences: Some implications Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Character traits Topics Teacher/Teaching Mystery Challenges Teasing Behaviors Classrooms *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors *Schools & Education Low Frequency Words accent anxiously appropriate assignment barrette blurted bordered boulevard brooch calmly chandelier classwork cobwebbed combed cousin's crinkling curved deedee delaware deserved dismissed dracula drawer elementary escaped estate farthest fashioned fault fellow flinch ghostly glared groundwork haunted ignored innocent introduce jeepers jewel laced lied massive melody's mention misbehaved murdered murderer ordinary peered polka potential proceeded reluctant rimmed romania romanian rough rumored scented scramble shaving silenced slouched smoothly snickered social softie sounding spitball staircase starched sternly strictest studies surgeon suspicions swamp thieves threatened toed transylvania transylvanian treatment viola wad wadded warned watermelons wears weighed weird what'll whisper wrestlers wrinkled