| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| It's Christmas, and the young elephants are very excited for Papa Red's annual visit! All the presents are ready, but this year Elmer, the patchwork elephant, has a special treat in store for the young elephants. |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 231 |
2.0 |
490 |
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 |
408 |
# of Different Words |
182 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
7 |
Hi Freq occurs |
217 |
53.2% |
# of Hi freq words |
79 |
43.4% |
| % of Long Sentences |
1.8 |
Low Freq occurs |
16 |
3.9% |
# of Low freq words |
12 |
6.6% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Dialog: Two speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
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| Topics |
| *Holidays, Events, Cele |
| Christmas |
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aboard |
annual |
cited |
collected |
laughter |
patchwork |
peace |
president |
season |
sleigh |
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squealing |
youngsters |
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