| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| The king, tired of rain, snow, sun, and fog, commands his magicians to make something else come down from the sky; but when oobleck falls in sticky greenish droplets, Bartholomew Cubbins shames the king and saves the kingdom. |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 672 |
3.1 |
670 |
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 |
32 |
Total # of Words |
1580 |
# of Different Words |
536 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
6 |
Hi Freq occurs |
1034 |
65.4% |
# of Hi freq words |
235 |
43.8% |
| % of Long Sentences |
2.5 |
Low Freq occurs |
95 |
6% |
# of Low freq words |
61 |
11.4% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Dialog: Two speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Vocabulary: Some difficult words |
| Language: Many descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
| Sequence of Events: Chronological |
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| Features |
| Character traits |
| Simple Plot |
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| Topics |
| *Weather |
| *Feelings, Behaviors |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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bedchamber |
belfry |
buttoning |
cubbyhole |
diamonds |
dreadful |
duffle |
dungeon |
frightening |
glorious |
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gooey |
gracious |
greenish |
gulped |
kingdom |
kingdom's |
ladies |
leapt |
lords |
magicians |
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majesty |
merciful |
mightiest |
muff |
murmured |
musty |
muttering |
mystic |
nightshirt |
onion |
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pelting |
proclaims |
ringer's |
royal |
shimmering |
shoved |
shuffle |
shuffling |
sire |
skies |
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sprang |
sputtering |
stairway |
stocking |
swirling |
tongues |
topmost |
trumpeter |
trumpeter's |
turrets |
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vista |
warn |
where'd |
whisker |
whiskers |
windowpanes |
wisp |
wondrous |
wrecked |
yanked |
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yawned |
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