| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Readers may have heard about a pack of wolves or a litter of puppies, but do they know which animals make up a gaggle or a murder? this book outlines a number of different types of animals, and what their group names are called. |
Inform |
Informational |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 124 |
1.4 |
160 |
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 |
11 |
Total # of Words |
129 |
# of Different Words |
61 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
6 |
Hi Freq occurs |
60 |
46.5% |
# of Hi freq words |
17 |
27.9% |
| % of Long Sentences |
0 |
Low Freq occurs |
9 |
7% |
# of Low freq words |
5 |
8.2% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Some phrases/refrains repeated |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Simple language |
| Sentences: Simple phrases |
| Text structure: Oral/Natural |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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colony |
gaggle |
herd |
murder |
neighborhood |
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