| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Fly Guy and Buzz are ready for their next field trip! They visit a natural history museum to learn all about dinosaurs. |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 631 |
3.0 |
670 |
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 |
20 |
Total # of Words |
635 |
# of Different Words |
284 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
8 |
Hi Freq occurs |
333 |
52.4% |
# of Hi freq words |
102 |
35.9% |
| % of Long Sentences |
0 |
Low Freq occurs |
53 |
8.3% |
# of Low freq words |
36 |
12.7% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Speech Bubbles |
| Vocabulary: Some difficult words |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Oral/Natural |
| Captions |
| Inserts/Side bars |
| Headings |
| Prior Knowledge: Familiarity |
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| Topics |
| Field Trips |
| Dinosaurs |
| *Animals |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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allosaurus |
apatosaurus |
bison |
brontosaurus |
carnivore |
carnivores |
continents |
defenders |
era |
extinct |
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hatched |
herbivore |
herbivores |
iguanodon |
mesozoic |
meteor |
paleontologist |
paleontologists |
pangaea |
plesiosaurs |
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predators |
pterodactyl |
pterosaur |
pterosaurs |
rebuild |
related |
scientist |
spiked |
stegosaurus |
studies |
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survived |
triceratops |
tyrannosaurus |
uncovering |
velociraptor |
weapons |
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