Title - Zeke Pippin Author: Steig, William Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Zeke Pippin found a harmonica that fell off a garbage truck. That piece of garbage changed his whole life. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1221 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 43 Total # of Words 1260 # of Different Words 568 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 808 64.1% # of Hi freq words 203 35.7% % of Long Sentences 14.7 Low Freq occurs 132 10.5% # of Low freq words 120 21.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Inferences: Several Implications Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concept: Fanciful Features Simple Plot Figurative Language Personification Idioms Metaphors Similes Topics Magic Sleep *Family & Friends *Music Musical instruments Performing Low Frequency Words aboard announced audience bagels baggage bamboozled bleary bravo bushed carnivore cetera chitlins chortled churning commenced concerts confusion conked countless coyote's crowed dalmatian dealing debating disinfectant dispose dreamland eared egret enraptured et ezekiel fellas folk fortify gazeek grange grateful harmonica harrowing hinkaholly homeward hustled independent indifferent insulting keeled knuckles label lazing licorice lugged misunderstanding moseying mushmellow musician naked nanoseconds nincompoops obliged opportunity organ passengers patients pausing pierced pippin pippins plastered pleaded pondering preferred prelude presented private proved quayhogue regaling remarkable researching reviling rudeness samaritans schnapps serenading shimmied shipshape shoved showering slew smothered snarled solitude sorrow studied suitcases supernatural surcease swiftly tangled thoroughly threaded traviata unanimously unconscious unglued untyin upstream villains weird whipped wretched wriggled yanking yelped yipes yowling zeezled zekey zoozled