Title - We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past Author: Woodson, Jacqueline Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre A young girl describes her various relatives and the foods they bring to the annual family picnic. Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 664 3.1 670 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 44 Total # of Words 685 # of Different Words 323 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 355 51.8% # of Hi freq words 112 34.7% % of Long Sentences 10.3 Low Freq occurs 34 5% # of Low freq words 25 7.7% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Inferences: Some implications Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Colorful, figurative Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Bold/Italicized Words Features Character traits Integral Setting First Person Dialect/Accents Idioms Unusual use of vocabulary Topics Food Grandparents *Home Arts & Food *Family & Friends Picnics Low Frequency Words astrid biscuits cinnamon cobbler collards cranberry daisies delicious echoed handing ladies laurie's melon nudging paulette paulette's relation reverend smartie strutted swallowing teeka terrance toted whisper