| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Amelia Bedelia's job search gets her into another "homonym hot seat" because she does what she's told literally, such as pouring cereal into a cup of coffee when asked for "cereal and coffee". |
Entertain |
Adventure |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 336 |
2.3 |
570 |
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 |
16 |
Total # of Words |
1246 |
# of Different Words |
280 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
4 |
Hi Freq occurs |
823 |
66.1% |
# of Hi freq words |
129 |
46.1% |
| % of Long Sentences |
0 |
Low Freq occurs |
15 |
1.2% |
# of Low freq words |
11 |
3.9% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Dialog: Two speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Simple phrases |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
| Inferences: Some implications |
| Concept: Fanciful |
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| Topics |
| Work |
| Words |
| Nonsense |
| Metaphors |
| Messiness |
| *Feelings, Behaviors |
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dickie |
filing |
patient |
patients |
purse |
scissors |
shorten |
shortened |
stirred |
stitches |
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thread |
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