| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| John Henry was born with a hammer in his hand. When men started talking about laying railroad tracks across the prairies and deserts, and right through the mountains, John Henry knew he and his hammer had to be a part of it. |
Entertain |
Folk Tales |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 694 |
3.1 |
680 |
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 |
25 |
Total # of Words |
1199 |
# of Different Words |
488 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
7 |
Hi Freq occurs |
684 |
57% |
# of Hi freq words |
175 |
35.9% |
| % of Long Sentences |
0.6 |
Low Freq occurs |
63 |
5.3% |
# of Low freq words |
46 |
9.4% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Dialog: Simple |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Many descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
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| Features |
| Retelling of story/fable/legend |
| Onomatopoeia |
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| Topics |
| *History |
| Heroes |
| Legends |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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almighty |
badlands |
blur |
cited |
doused |
echoed |
foreman |
frantically |
fuse |
goin |
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gripped |
grunted |
hammering |
heartbeat |
heaved |
herds |
hoarse |
instant |
l'il |
lawd |
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locomotives |
men'll |
murmuring |
others'll |
pacific |
prairies |
pullin |
rascal |
riverboat |
scrambled |
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seized |
sledge |
smoky |
soundlessly |
sprawling |
stampeding |
steadily |
streamed |
suits |
swirled |
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thunderous |
unfamiliar |
westward |
wheezed |
whistled |
workplaces |
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