| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| When Frisker and Whisker, two mice, lose a series of houses to other animals, Whisker vows to find them the best house of all. |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 561 |
2.9 |
650 |
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 |
26 |
Total # of Words |
1502 |
# of Different Words |
461 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
11 |
Hi Freq occurs |
1021 |
68% |
# of Hi freq words |
190 |
41.2% |
| % of Long Sentences |
9.4 |
Low Freq occurs |
51 |
3.4% |
# of Low freq words |
36 |
7.8% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Dialog: Two speakers |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
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| Topics |
| Danger |
| Houses |
| *Habitats/Environments |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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angrily |
bellows |
cough |
cradles |
curled |
curtains |
delicious |
dollhouse |
fitted |
freed |
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gazing |
gobbled |
meowing |
mousy |
muff |
paddling |
pocketbook |
purse |
rosebush |
scampered |
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scampering |
scurried |
shutters |
soundly |
squealed |
stocking |
strolling |
swept |
tangled |
velvet |
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velvety |
waddled |
waddling |
whisker |
wonderfully |
yelped |
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