| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| A parody of the Gingerbread Man in which the original baker of the Gingerbread Baby catches the Gingerbread Baby and brings it home as the naughty baby runs away with a host of people and animals chasing him. |
Entertain |
Tall Tales |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 582 |
2.9 |
660 |
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 |
41 |
Total # of Words |
1076 |
# of Different Words |
357 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
9 |
Hi Freq occurs |
709 |
65.9% |
# of Hi freq words |
142 |
39.8% |
| % of Long Sentences |
11 |
Low Freq occurs |
28 |
2.6% |
# of Low freq words |
25 |
7% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Inferences: Some implications |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Some Long/Complex |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
| Concept: Fanciful |
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| Topics |
| Cooking |
| Chasing/Catching |
| Cakes/Cookies |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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delicious |
familiar |
fashioned |
frosted |
glee |
lowered |
meanwhile |
measured |
meddling |
meowing |
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peppermint |
peppy |
railing |
recipe |
somersaulted |
sprang |
stirred |
strolled |
tabby |
tweaked |
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twitched |
villagers |
warn |
wheeled |
whiff |
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