| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Readers will count to 12 and pick up fun facts as they go: the one boy who jumped over the candlestick, the names of the four seasons, and the seven colors of a rainbow, just to name a few. |
Entertain |
Concept |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 345 |
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 |
20 |
Total # of Words |
329 |
# of Different Words |
198 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
5 |
Hi Freq occurs |
122 |
37.1% |
# of Hi freq words |
39 |
19.7% |
| % of Long Sentences |
0 |
Low Freq occurs |
30 |
9.1% |
# of Low freq words |
25 |
12.6% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Simple language |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
| Concept: Fanciful |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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curds |
donner |
fore |
goalkeeper |
hind |
indigo |
january |
many's |
manys |
mercury |
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midfielder |
neptune |
nimble |
pearl |
prancer |
reindeer |
seasons |
sleigh |
striker |
uranus |
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venus |
vixen |
watermelon |
whey |
winger |
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