| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| One day Karen, Hannie, and Nancy are bored, bored, bored. They can't go roller-skating, and the playground is too far away. So Karen decides to have a carnival, with all kinds of games and prizes! |
Entertain |
Realistic Fiction |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 626 |
3.0 |
670 |
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 |
32 |
Total # of Words |
1248 |
# of Different Words |
408 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
7 |
Hi Freq occurs |
860 |
68.9% |
# of Hi freq words |
182 |
44.6% |
| % of Long Sentences |
6 |
Low Freq occurs |
42 |
3.4% |
# of Low freq words |
35 |
8.6% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Inferences: Some implications |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
| Complexity: Several ideas - closely related |
| Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social |
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| Topics |
| Games |
| Helping |
| *Entertainment & Fun |
| *Family & Friends |
| *Feelings, Behaviors |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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academy |
borrow |
daddies |
destiny |
disappointed |
divorce |
elementary |
faraway |
freckles |
goldfishie |
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goosie |
hooded |
junior |
littler |
moosie |
morbidda |
musketeers |
nah |
nannie |
neighborhood |
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nicknames |
ought |
ourselves |
porter |
sake |
scuffed |
stepbrother |
stepbrothers |
stepfather |
stepsister |
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stoneybrook |
tickly |
vacations |
vietnam |
yourselves |
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