| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| "Don't throw the bread away!" a mother sings to her child. She explains, poetically, how wheat is planted, grown, harvested, milled, and baked to loaves of life-giving bread. A bilingual, rhythmic celebration of bread, from farmer to baker. |
Entertain |
Realistic Fiction |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 204 |
2.0 |
460 |
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 |
34 |
Total # of Words |
392 |
# of Different Words |
136 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
9 |
Hi Freq occurs |
154 |
39.3% |
# of Hi freq words |
43 |
31.6% |
| % of Long Sentences |
9.3 |
Low Freq occurs |
30 |
7.7% |
# of Low freq words |
14 |
10.3% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Some phrases/refrains repeated |
| Dialog: Simple |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Simple phrases |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
| Complexity: Several ideas - closely related |
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| Topics |
| Seeds |
| Sun |
| Water |
| *Plants |
| Growth/Growing |
| Soil/Dirt |
| Light |
| Buying/Selling |
| *Community |
| Farms |
| Food |
| Gardens/Gardening |
| Stores/Shops |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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bueno |
comer |
harvester |
hoping |
kneading |
mamita |
para |
slumber |
sprouting |
sprouts |
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tills |
vida |
waking |
yeast |
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