| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Alice knew she could write a great poem about her beetle. It wasn’t soft and fluffy like a kitten. It was shiny and tough. Alice walked home watching her new pet and thinking about her poem. She already had a title: My Beetle Betty. |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 244 |
2.1 |
500 |
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 |
18 |
Total # of Words |
539 |
# of Different Words |
248 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
7 |
Hi Freq occurs |
333 |
61.8% |
# of Hi freq words |
101 |
40.7% |
| % of Long Sentences |
0 |
Low Freq occurs |
15 |
2.8% |
# of Low freq words |
10 |
4% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Dialog: Two speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Simple phrases |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
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| Topics |
| Writing |
| *Animals |
| Insects |
| Pets |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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borrow |
coughs |
ignored |
imagined |
neighbor's |
poem |
purse |
request |
scrambling |
sprout |
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