| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Doctor Foster not only travels to Gloucester, but also Oxford, Gosport, Stockton and Bognor in this charmingly illustrated update of the classic nursery rhyme. |
Entertain |
Concept |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 200 |
1.9 |
450 |
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 |
19 |
Total # of Words |
154 |
# of Different Words |
95 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
11 |
Hi Freq occurs |
78 |
50.6% |
# of Hi freq words |
31 |
32.6% |
| % of Long Sentences |
0 |
Low Freq occurs |
18 |
11.7% |
# of Low freq words |
14 |
14.7% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Dialog: Simple |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Oral/Natural |
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| Features |
| Clear cause/effect |
| Difficult names |
| Rhyming |
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| Topics |
| Travel/Traveling |
| *Weather |
| Storms |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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bognor |
foster |
gale |
gloucester |
gosport |
oxford |
patients |
shower |
sizzling |
spectacles |
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stockton |
sunburned |
swirling |
wail |
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