Title - Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger Author: Sachar, Louis Publisher: Avon Camelot Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre After Wayside School is reopened, the classroom on the thirtieth floor experiences a series of unusual subtitute teachers. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1255 4.0 800 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 32 Total # of Words 4110 # of Different Words 932 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 2947 71.7% # of Hi freq words 422 45.3% % of Long Sentences 2.4 Low Freq occurs 147 3.6% # of Low freq words 99 10.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concept: Fanciful Features Unusual use of vocabulary Topics Teacher/Teaching *Schools & Education Relationships Low Frequency Words accent ached advised ashtray assured assures aurple baloney borrow burp'll burple caramel chlorine cigarette cigarettes civilization counselor counselor's cure curple decal deedee delicious disappointing durple elementary eventually exaggeration fewer firemen freight gradually grunted gunk handsome happ'nin hence icky immediately impressive jamaica jewels leonardo leslie leslie's liver lounge lunged lungs meanwhile meowed mind's mooed mooing murple nineteenth nurple ourple overcoat pall paused penetrating pleasant poem poems poetry poets psychiatrist psychiatry quitting qurple ratfink reminder rhyme rhymed rhymes sauce security shoveled shrugged siren smushed squealed staggered suggestions sweater syllable thirtieth transparent tweeted twelfth uglier vinci wayside what'd where'd wi yanked zurple