| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| An African-American child dreams of long-ago Africa, where she sees animals, shops in a marketplace, reads strange words from an old book, and returns to the village where her long-ago granddaddy welcomes her. |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 322 |
2.3 |
560 |
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 |
69 |
Total # of Words |
194 |
# of Different Words |
106 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
32 |
Hi Freq occurs |
100 |
51.5% |
# of Hi freq words |
26 |
24.5% |
| % of Long Sentences |
50 |
Low Freq occurs |
7 |
3.6% |
# of Low freq words |
7 |
6.6% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Unconventional format |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Many descriptive words |
| Sentences: Many Long Complex |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
| Concept: Fanciful |
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| Features |
| First Person |
| Unconventional punctuation |
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| Topics |
| Travel/Traveling |
| Dreams |
| Cultures |
| Africa/ns |
| Family |
| Foreign Country |
| Grandparents |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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cousins |
knelt |
lonesome |
mangoes |
marketplace |
pearls |
perfume |
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