| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| This book welcomes young readers to the crazy world of Gerald McGrew, who dreams of transforming his local zoo into a madcap menagerie of weird and wonderful beasts. |
Entertain |
Poetry |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 752 |
3.2 |
690 |
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 |
57 |
Total # of Words |
1627 |
# of Different Words |
564 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
15 |
Hi Freq occurs |
1072 |
65.9% |
# of Hi freq words |
201 |
35.6% |
| % of Long Sentences |
20 |
Low Freq occurs |
78 |
4.8% |
# of Low freq words |
63 |
11.2% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Oral/Natural |
| Concept: Fanciful |
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| Topics |
| Zoos |
| Changes |
| Innovation |
| Elaboration |
| *Animals |
| Imagination |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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astounding |
chieftain |
chieftains |
crannies |
croquettes |
darndest |
degrees |
eastern |
excepting |
fashioned |
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feller |
fellow |
flustard |
footed |
gasket |
gawk |
geography |
gherkin |
gusset |
gwark |
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iota |
jungles |
kartoom |
keen |
marvelous |
mazurka |
mcgrew |
mcgrew's |
mcgrewses |
mcgrewski |
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mobile |
mulligatawny |
mustard |
nantasket |
nantucket |
natch |
nooks |
onward |
palooski |
pell |
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persian |
pickled |
propeller |
rhubarb |
roosts |
sauce |
scraggle |
scrawny |
seersucker |
shucks |
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sleek |
snarled |
spiced |
swallow |
swallows |
topknot |
tufted |
upward |
vicious |
vigor |
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worth |
zeroes |
zomba |
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