| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| None of the other animals can sleep because Elephant has the hiccups, but how do you cure an elephant of his hiccups? |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 145 |
1.6 |
190 |
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 |
153 |
# of Different Words |
79 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
4 |
Hi Freq occurs |
62 |
40.5% |
# of Hi freq words |
26 |
32.9% |
| % of Long Sentences |
3.1 |
Low Freq occurs |
3 |
2% |
# of Low freq words |
1 |
1.3% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Dialog: Two speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Simple language |
| Sentences: Simple phrases |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
| Concept: Fanciful |
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| Topics |
| Sleep |
| Health |
| Helping |
| Noises |
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