Title - Wild, Wild Hair Author: Grimes, Nikki Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Hating having to get her wild hair painfully combed and braided every Monday, Tisa decides to hide. Entertain Concept RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 266 2.1 520 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 13 Total # of Words 311 # of Different Words 179 Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 164 52.7% # of Hi freq words 68 38% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 5 1.6% # of Low freq words 5 2.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Simple Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Character traits Simple problem/solution Topics Body Appearances Hair/Haircuts *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words comb curled eyed knots raked