| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Like her classmates, builder Iggy and inventor Rosie, scientist Ada, a character of color, has a boundless imagination and has always been hopelessly curious. Why are there pointy things stuck to a rose? Why are there hairs growing inside your nose? |
Entertain |
Realistic Fiction |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 493 |
2.7 |
630 |
Amazon
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| RDQ based on a maximum of 3000 words |
Levels are suggested levels based on RDQ, not official levels |
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| Sentences |
Total Words |
Different Words |
| Max Word/Sent |
33 |
Total # of Words |
906 |
# of Different Words |
333 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
8 |
Hi Freq occurs |
590 |
65.1% |
# of Hi freq words |
133 |
39.9% |
| % of Long Sentences |
4.8 |
Low Freq occurs |
47 |
5.2% |
# of Low freq words |
35 |
10.5% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Dialog: Simple |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Many descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
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| Features |
| Character traits |
| Character development |
| Simple Plot |
| Rhyming |
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| Topics |
| *Science |
| Cause/Effect |
| Questions |
| Learning |
| Smells |
| Discovery |
| *Feelings, Behaviors |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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ada's |
aroma |
calmed |
chaos |
chasing |
cologne |
conked |
curious |
curled |
curls |
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fiction |
frazzled |
frustrated |
gawk |
havoc |
hypothesis |
messes |
observing |
ought |
passion |
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perfume |
pungent |
queried |
questioned |
research |
resist |
resulted |
science |
scientist |
source |
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spree |
stench |
traits |
wreaked |
zowie |
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