| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| One dark and noisy night, the Fraidy Cats let their imaginations run wild, visualizing scary things from wild elephants to hungry wolves. |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 273 |
2.1 |
520 |
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 |
18 |
Total # of Words |
489 |
# of Different Words |
203 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
5 |
Hi Freq occurs |
270 |
55.2% |
# of Hi freq words |
77 |
37.9% |
| % of Long Sentences |
0 |
Low Freq occurs |
16 |
3.3% |
# of Low freq words |
10 |
4.9% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
| Concept: Fanciful |
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| Topics |
| Fears |
| Dinosaurs |
| Imagination |
| *Feelings, Behaviors |
| Night |
| Noises |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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curtain |
curtains |
fraidy |
heaviest |
pleasant |
positive |
scamper |
screech |
ultrasaurs |
ultrasaurus |
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