Title - White House White Out Author: Roy, Ron Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre It’s winter in Washington, D.C.! Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are visiting the White House in snowy December, when they meet the president's stepdaughter, KC, and her friend Marshall. But in the confusion caused by all the people decorating the White House for Christmas, the president's dog goes missing! Entertain Mystery RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1067 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 24 Total # of Words 3032 # of Different Words 835 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 2112 69.7% # of Hi freq words 359 43% % of Long Sentences 0.5 Low Freq occurs 121 4% # of Low freq words 91 10.9% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Chapters Features Simple Plot Topics Fears Danger Crime Presidents *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words absorb accidentally announced approached armloads carpeted chandeliers clipboard compartment confusion congress consulted current curve dangled decorator duncan florist garlands greenery greyhound grove guide guidebook gulped house's informed jewels katherine kidnapped kidnapper knitted lawns lugged lurched marine marker marsh marshall monument natasha's national nowhere ornaments paragraph peering piped president president's private public purpose ransom research residents royal scrambled scuffed separated seventeenth shelves shone sidewalks sixteenth sleek sliding squint stepdad stepdaughter stepfather stitched studied supplies surrounded sweater swept that'll thornton toed tour tourists trudged whisper whistled windshield wired worth wreath wreaths zachary zillion