| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| It’s vacation time, so Emily has to write to her teacher to help when she discovers a blue whale living in her pond. Mr. Blueberry answers that she must be mistaken, because whales live in the ocean, not in ponds. |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 208 |
2.0 |
470 |
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 |
24 |
Total # of Words |
494 |
# of Different Words |
194 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
7 |
Hi Freq occurs |
266 |
53.8% |
# of Hi freq words |
81 |
41.8% |
| % of Long Sentences |
6.3 |
Low Freq occurs |
12 |
2.4% |
# of Low freq words |
7 |
3.6% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Moderate support |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Simple language |
| Sentences: Simple phrases |
| Text structure: Oral/Natural |
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| Features |
| Clear cause/effect |
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| Topics |
| Whales |
| Letters (mail) |
| *Animals |
| Imagination |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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distances |
forcibly |
happiest |
migratory |
sincerely |
spurt |
wales |
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