| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| When Shelly yanks open her sock drawer, she finds a tiny boy inside reading a book. |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 250 |
2.1 |
510 |
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 |
27 |
Total # of Words |
531 |
# of Different Words |
162 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
8 |
Hi Freq occurs |
316 |
59.5% |
# of Hi freq words |
62 |
38.3% |
| % of Long Sentences |
3 |
Low Freq occurs |
11 |
2.1% |
# of Low freq words |
3 |
1.9% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Dialog: Multiple speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
| Concept: Fanciful |
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| Topics |
| Size |
| Changes |
| Mystery |
| Mothers |
| Magic |
| Tricks |
| Imagination |
| *Feelings, Behaviors |
| Numbers |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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centimetres |
drawer |
yanked |
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