| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn, they start typing all day long. All day Farmer Brown hears Click, clack, moo. |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 255 |
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 |
25 |
Total # of Words |
402 |
# of Different Words |
147 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
6 |
Hi Freq occurs |
161 |
40% |
# of Hi freq words |
57 |
38.8% |
| % of Long Sentences |
1.6 |
Low Freq occurs |
15 |
3.7% |
# of Low freq words |
7 |
4.8% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Simple phrases |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
| Concept: Fanciful |
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| Features |
| Simple problem/solution |
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| Topics |
| Writing |
| Trading/Swapping |
| Letters (mail) |
| *Animals |
| Fair play/Fairness |
| Animals: Farm |
| Machines |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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emergency |
furious |
impatient |
neutral |
sincerely |
typewriter |
ultimatum |
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