| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Versions of this story are told in many parts of East Africa. Similar tales are told by the Kikuyu and Masai tribes in Kenya and by tribes in Southern Africa. A fable of a giraffe and a rhino, and how and why the giraffe got such a long neck. |
Entertain |
Folk Tales |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 229 |
2.0 |
490 |
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 |
36 |
Total # of Words |
724 |
# of Different Words |
245 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
6 |
Hi Freq occurs |
435 |
60.1% |
# of Hi freq words |
108 |
44.1% |
| % of Long Sentences |
3.7 |
Low Freq occurs |
17 |
2.3% |
# of Low freq words |
12 |
4.9% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Dialog: Multiple speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
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| Topics |
| Growth/Growing |
| Magic |
| *Animals |
| Helping |
| Legends |
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charged |
fault |
gobbled |
herb |
meanwhile |
plains |
shriveled |
swirled |
tasteless |
tinglings |
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tufts |
twitching |
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