| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Most kids go to camp over the summer, or to Grandma's house, or maybe they're stuck at home. Not Wallace Bleff. He was supposed to visit his Aunt Fern. Instead, Wallace insists, he was carried off by cowboys and taught the ways of the West. |
Entertain |
Narrative |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 338 |
2.3 |
570 |
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 |
23 |
Total # of Words |
421 |
# of Different Words |
230 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
8 |
Hi Freq occurs |
267 |
63.4% |
# of Hi freq words |
97 |
42.2% |
| % of Long Sentences |
2.1 |
Low Freq occurs |
23 |
5.5% |
# of Low freq words |
20 |
8.7% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Dialog: Simple |
| 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 |
| Summer |
| Cowboys |
| Imagination |
| *Feelings, Behaviors |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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aboard |
bleff |
bleff’s |
buckaroo |
charged |
charging |
cowboying |
delicious |
fern |
gonna |
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imagination |
matador |
plains |
rough |
roundup |
stampede |
stampeded |
stamping |
stirring |
tablecloth |
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