Title - Winter according to Humphrey Author: Birney, Betty G Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The holidays are coming and Humphrey (the class hamster) is unsqueakably excited. He loves to hear about all the different ways his friends in Room 26 celebrate and to watch them make costumes and learn songs for the Winter Wonderland pageant. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 846 3.4 710 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 30 Total # of Words 3198 # of Different Words 770 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 2326 72.7% # of Hi freq words 367 47.7% % of Long Sentences 3.8 Low Freq occurs 92 2.9% # of Low freq words 58 7.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Chapters Headings Features Character traits Integral Setting - Historical Simple Plot First Person Topics Winter Snow *Animals Plays Helping *Schools & Education *Music School Low Frequency Words announced attendance ballet convinced cousins degrees despite excitable handsome heavier holly's humphrey humphrey's iffic intelligent kelsey kelsey's lark longfellow luckily mumphrey murmuring musical neighbor neighborhood nickname paused performance performing practicing projects puckered quieted quiver rehearsals rehearsing scarves scenery schedules science scrambled season sledded sledding swirling terrifying twanged twanging unsqueakably warmth whiskers whistling wonderings wonderland woolly yawn yawned yawning