Title - When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry Author: Bang, Molly Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre When Sophie gets angry, she runs out and climbs her favorite tree. Different people handle anger in different ways. What do you do when you get angry? Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 177 1.8 270 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 15 Total # of Words 167 # of Different Words 92 Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 73 43.7% # of Hi freq words 21 22.8% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 3 1.8% # of Low freq words 3 3.3% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Inferences: Some implications Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Simple problem/solution Clear cause/effect Topics Attitudes Behaviors Anger *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words ferns smithereens snatched