| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| A girl named Lisa fell in love with a little brown bear wearing green overalls with one button missing, and thousands of readers followed suit, making Corduroy one of the best-loved children's books of all time. |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 494 |
2.7 |
630 |
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 |
37 |
Total # of Words |
707 |
# of Different Words |
302 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
10 |
Hi Freq occurs |
471 |
66.6% |
# of Hi freq words |
133 |
44% |
| % of Long Sentences |
12.9 |
Low Freq occurs |
26 |
3.7% |
# of Low freq words |
15 |
5% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Dialog: Two speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Simple language |
| Sentences: Many Long Complex |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
| Concept: Fanciful |
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| Topics |
| Toys |
| Shopping |
| Homes |
| *Family & Friends |
| Bears |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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admiring |
alongside |
corduroy |
customers |
drawers |
escalator |
fastened |
mattress |
overalls |
saleslady |
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toppled |
waking |
wandered |
watchman |
yanked |
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