| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| A young hunter draws his bow against a buffalo cow drinking from a stream. Before he can loose his arrow, there is no buffalo -- instead, there stands a beautiful young woman, whom he knows he must marry. |
Entertain |
Folk Tales |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 978 |
3.6 |
740 |
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 |
48 |
Total # of Words |
1537 |
# of Different Words |
491 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
11 |
Hi Freq occurs |
1097 |
71.4% |
# of Hi freq words |
204 |
41.5% |
| % of Long Sentences |
5.2 |
Low Freq occurs |
64 |
4.2% |
# of Low freq words |
45 |
9.2% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Dialog: Two speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Many descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
| Concept: Fanciful |
| Mature concepts: With common experiences or clear fantasy |
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| Features |
| Character traits |
| Simple Plot |
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| Topics |
| Changes |
| Danger |
| Fantasy |
| Love |
| *Animals |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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according |
announced |
attentive |
bowstring |
breathed |
calf's |
calves |
charged |
cockle |
continuous |
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courage |
coyotes |
creator's |
excitedly |
further |
grunting |
grunts |
harmony |
herd |
herds |
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immediately |
insulted |
lodge |
magpies |
multitude |
nation |
parted |
pawed |
plodding |
prairie |
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radiating |
related |
relationship |
relatives |
ridge |
sage |
sagebrush |
surely |
surrounded |
thundering |
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tightened |
tipi |
trample |
wallow |
yearlings |
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