| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Animals should definitely not wear clothing... because a snake would lose it, a billy goat would eat it for lunch, and it would always be wet on a walrus! In this silly story, several different animals see the problems they would have if they were to wear clothing. |
Entertain |
Humor |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 263 |
2.1 |
520 |
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 |
135 |
Total # of Words |
123 |
# of Different Words |
65 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
123 |
Hi Freq occurs |
41 |
33.3% |
# of Hi freq words |
11 |
16.9% |
| % of Long Sentences |
100 |
Low Freq occurs |
7 |
5.7% |
# of Low freq words |
7 |
10.8% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Some phrases/refrains repeated |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Some Long/Complex |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
| Concept: Fanciful |
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| Features |
| Unconventional punctuation |
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| Topics |
| Clothes |
| Appearances |
| *Animals |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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disasterous |
embarrassing |
manage |
opossums |
terribly |
unnecessary |
walrus |
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