Title - Wish Author: O'Connor, Barbara Publisher: MacMillan Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Eleven-year-old Charlie Reese has been making the same secret wish every day since fourth grade. She even has a list of all the ways there are to make the wish, such as cutting off the pointed end of a slice of pie and wishing on it as she takes the last bite. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1225 4.0 780 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 3317 # of Different Words 911 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 2502 75.4% # of Hi freq words 379 41.6% % of Long Sentences 15.9 Low Freq occurs 137 4.1% # of Low freq words 105 11.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Chapters Features Character development Clear cause/effect First Person Topics Wishes Dogs Family Friendship Moving *Family & Friends Low Frequency Words activities aisle anyways asphalt ballet bureau burlap cashmere cigarettes cinnamon creeped crinkly curtains curved cussing dandelion drawn environment faucet fiery flowering flung flushed fogged fondness freckly gazillion glares gonna graduating gravel grooming haired hearted hillbilly hovered hurled kin kinda laser laundromat linoleum livelong ma'am mcgee motioned mountainside mousy nestled nightstand nosy ole oughta palms passel perched pillowcases pitiful plumes pogo practically projects propped railing rainwater rambled reasons redheaded restaurant scrappy scrawny services shrubs shrugged shuffling skateboards slingshot social splotchy sputtering stable stilts studies sunning surrounded swear sweater talker tattered termites theaters thrust trudged turnips twitched wavy weird whined why're widened windowsill windowsills workbooks worksheet younger