| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Fifth-grader Cam uses her photographic memory, with help from her friend Eric and his twin sisters, to solve the mystery of Poochie, a famous canine television. |
Entertain |
Mystery |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 536 |
2.8 |
640 |
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 |
40 |
Total # of Words |
2840 |
# of Different Words |
540 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
7 |
Hi Freq occurs |
2009 |
70.7% |
# of Hi freq words |
268 |
49.6% |
| % of Long Sentences |
2.5 |
Low Freq occurs |
33 |
1.2% |
# of Low freq words |
13 |
2.4% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Dialog: Multiple speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
| Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social |
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| Character traits |
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| Topics |
| Mystery |
| Dogs |
| Television |
| *Animals |
| Detectives |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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biscuits |
chasing |
donna's |
haired |
photograph |
photographic |
poochie |
poochie's |
sewn |
shelton |
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shortened |
storybooks |
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