| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| A sister and brother plant and tend their own pumpkin patch so they will have jack-o-lanterns for Halloween. |
Entertain |
Concept |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 189 |
1.9 |
370 |
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 |
259 |
# of Different Words |
133 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
9 |
Hi Freq occurs |
128 |
49.4% |
# of Hi freq words |
44 |
33.1% |
| % of Long Sentences |
7.4 |
Low Freq occurs |
8 |
3.1% |
# of Low freq words |
6 |
4.5% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Simple phrases |
| Text structure: Oral/Natural |
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| Topics |
| Seeds |
| Water |
| *Plants |
| Soil/Dirt |
| Gardens/Gardening |
| *Holidays, Events, Cele |
| Halloween |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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halloween |
hollow |
lantern |
lanterns |
shovel |
wheelbarrow |
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