Title - Way Down Deep Author: Unknown Publisher: Reading A-Z Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre In the West Virginia town of Way Down Deep in the 1950s, a foundling called Ruby June is happily living with Miss Arbutus at the local boarding house when suddenly, after the arrival of a family of outsiders, the mystery of Ruby's past begins to unravel. Entertain Historical Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2105 5.1 920 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 52 Total # of Words 3652 # of Different Words 1132 Ave Word/.Sent 12 Hi Freq occurs 2610 71.5% # of Hi freq words 442 39% % of Long Sentences 22.1 Low Freq occurs 324 8.9% # of Low freq words 249 22% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support 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: Some implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Chapters Features Excessive # of characters Simple Plot Dialect/Accents Topics Sharing Mystery *Community *Family & Friends Adoption Low Frequency Words aback abandoned abridged absolutely abundant accepted account accounts accumulation actual adventurers adventurous advertisements albeit antique appalachians arbutus archibald assisting babbling bachelors betcha blurry boardinghouse borrowed boudoir broach caption cherub circuit citizens civilization cleaner's collected commiserated community concerns content counties courthouse crisis cultured curled curls customers dada decent distasteful distorted doubloons dreadful dunno duster dutifully educated elegant encircled enclosed encountered encyclopedias errands essential evangelist eventually explorations exploring expressions familiar fashioned finders fondness footed founder frayed gaping generous gentry gerry girlhood gradually grateful gratefully grocery hardware hawking hearty hereabouts heretofore hollers hollow horsie hossie housed inasmuch independent instructed insurance introduced investigation jethro judge junior justus kentucky kinder laundry legend legends lemonade lester librarian lima lint locally manicuring material meager melodious melons merchants moreover mouthful mysterious naturally notwithstanding nowhere observe occasion occupied opinion oversee pansies parallel partially particular peddler peering peppering periodically permanent personal petticoat physician pickling pioneers pleasant pockets possession preached preen preferred presence presently previous primp private prominent promptly proprietors prove prying puny purchased pure purpose questioned rambling ranged react reckoned recognize recuperate redeem redheaded referred refined regards regulars residents responsible retrieving revealing rewarded reynolds rife's ritual rituals romped ruby ruby's rumored salesman salesmen saturated sawmill sermon services settlement shamelessly shared sheltered sheriff sheriff's sheriffing shortened situation slathered sliding social somewhat souls spacious splendidly statement stating sterilize stingy stylish subsequent supper's surname swap sympathetically tenants thornton thrived thumbing timber toddler townsfolk townspeople tyke typewriter upbringing vacuum valuable vantage various vigorously volunteered ward wards warn weary whereby whispery wholesome woodpile