| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| After the first day of first grade, Henry's not sure how he feels about it. The teacher isn't like his kindergarten teacher, and the fifth-graders hog the monkey bars. |
Entertain |
Concept |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 236 |
2.0 |
500 |
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 |
378 |
# of Different Words |
195 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
8 |
Hi Freq occurs |
226 |
59.8% |
# of Hi freq words |
81 |
41.5% |
| % of Long Sentences |
8.9 |
Low Freq occurs |
17 |
4.5% |
# of Low freq words |
8 |
4.1% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little 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 |
| Teacher/Teaching |
| Changes |
| *Schools & Education |
| New School |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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cruse |
gross |
guinea |
kindergarten |
mccarthy |
oswaldo |
science |
tuna |
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