| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Mole loves to stick labels on objects. One day, he finds something unusual in the woods. He puts a bunch of labels on the beast that read, lumpy, bumpy, gigantic. Then the thing frightens Mole, so Mole adds the label "dangerous". But is the Lumpy-Bumpy Thing really all that dangerous? |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 311 |
2.2 |
550 |
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 |
21 |
Total # of Words |
289 |
# of Different Words |
157 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
5 |
Hi Freq occurs |
132 |
45.7% |
# of Hi freq words |
54 |
34.4% |
| % of Long Sentences |
2 |
Low Freq occurs |
22 |
7.6% |
# of Low freq words |
18 |
11.5% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Dialog: Simple |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Many descriptive words |
| Sentences: Simple phrases |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
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| Features |
| Character development |
| Words presented in isolation |
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| Topics |
| Signs |
| Words |
| Friendship |
| *Feelings, Behaviors |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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burp |
burpy |
gobbled |
gobbling |
label |
labeling |
labels |
naughty |
peered |
scaly |
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slurpy |
sniffled |
snippy |
squealed |
squirmed |
terrifying |
yawn |
yawned |
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