| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| The incomparable Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle loves children good or bad, and never scolds, but has positive cures for Answer-Backers, Never-Want-to-Go-to-Bedders, and other boys and girls with strange habits and problems. |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 1617 |
4.5 |
840 |
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 |
54 |
Total # of Words |
2034 |
# of Different Words |
653 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
9 |
Hi Freq occurs |
1365 |
67.1% |
# of Hi freq words |
273 |
41.8% |
| % of Long Sentences |
14.6 |
Low Freq occurs |
115 |
5.7% |
# of Low freq words |
91 |
13.9% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Dialog: Multiple speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker |
| Vocabulary: Some difficult words |
| Language: Many descriptive words |
| Sentences: Some Long/Complex |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
| Inferences: Several Implications |
| Complexity: Several unrelated ideas |
| Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social |
| Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social |
| Table of Contents |
| Chapters |
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| Features |
| Character traits |
| Character development |
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| Topics |
| Feelings/Emotions |
| Behaviors |
| Helping |
| *Family & Friends |
| *Feelings, Behaviors |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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absolute |
angrily |
anxious |
anxiously |
aspirin |
aspirins |
biscuit |
boisterous |
busily |
butcher |
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client |
confines |
convenience |
crabpatches |
crocus |
cure |
curing |
dialed |
disgraced |
dixie |
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dolefully |
earliest |
edith |
embarrasses |
entertaining |
evened |
eyed |
fiercely |
flouncing |
flowering |
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fragrant |
furious |
gazed |
giggling |
glared |
glimpse |
grumpily |
heavily |
honestly |
inclined |
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instant |
intend |
intently |
lukewarm |
mimicked |
motioned |
mournfully |
nervousness |
obnoxious |
offy |
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paprika |
peering |
percolator |
perriwinkle |
physically |
piggle |
pleasant |
portions |
pouring |
practically |
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quavered |
raspberry |
rattling |
reciting |
reproachful |
repulsive |
reverie |
ridiculous |
savagely |
schoolmates |
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schoolyard |
sideways |
sincerely |
skidded |
skillet |
sleepily |
sliding |
smoothed |
sponge |
stirred |
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suggestions |
sulkily |
tattletale |
teaspoons |
timid |
unfortunately |
unnoticed |
vinemaple |
waltham |
wears |
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wiggle's |
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