| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Flik finds that his inventions aren't nearly as exciting to anyone else as they are to him. Thorny, more than anyone, is getting fed up with Flik's useless inventions. |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 543 |
2.8 |
650 |
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 |
22 |
Total # of Words |
1027 |
# of Different Words |
385 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
6 |
Hi Freq occurs |
620 |
60.4% |
# of Hi freq words |
167 |
43.4% |
| % of Long Sentences |
0.7 |
Low Freq occurs |
47 |
4.6% |
# of Low freq words |
28 |
7.3% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Dialog: Multiple speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Simple language |
| Sentences: Some Long/Complex |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
| Concept: Fanciful |
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| Topics |
| Food |
| Inventions/Inventors |
| Ants |
| Machines |
| *Technology & Progress |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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adjusted |
antennae |
atta |
colony |
excellent |
giggling |
gonna |
gulp |
harvester |
harvesting |
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hoping |
intently |
invention |
inventions |
journal |
mechanism |
moments |
muttered |
nowhere |
otherwise |
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stalk |
stalks |
survive |
thorny |
thorny's |
warned |
watcha |
wowee |
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