Title - Wringer Author: Spinelli, Jerry Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2276 5.4 940 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 47 Total # of Words 3722 # of Different Words 1063 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 2726 73.2% # of Hi freq words 448 42.1% % of Long Sentences 9.2 Low Freq occurs 190 5.1% # of Low freq words 145 13.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Chapters Sequence of Events: Chronological Mature Concepts: With some uncommon experiences Features Character traits Character development Complex Problem/Solution Topics Attitudes Bullies Fears Courage Conflicts *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words announced anxious approached belted blessed booted braincase c'mon candleglow careening chalked cheesy cigar claiming contradiction cringed crouched curious curtain denied desperately disappointed drawer dreaded drowned drunkenly edges ehh escaping fitted flailing flopping flung fringed gangly genius glaring glumly gotta grate hangman's harassed headfirst holey honor hoodlums horror hotfoot hovered hunger hyenas icing ignore incredible instantly joining knowing knuckle laughter launching legendary legged likewise liquidlike lopsided lotsa lowering lungs lurched maddeningly major meekest mere merely monopoly muscle naturally neighbor's nickname noose olds pasture peaceful peen perched pigeon pigeon's piped plunge plunged pointless prove punctured quivering recognized refused respect resulting rollicking rotting rumored segment sewer shirtsleeve shooing shotguns shoving sidelines silverware sinkhole sliding sloppily smirk snatched spat spilling sprang staggered stillness stirred streaked studied surely survive swallowed swallower sword tilted tinny treatment triggers troublemaker ultimate unpredictable unthinkable wandering whisper wick wingtip woozy wring wringer yelping yer younger zombies