| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| When Joe, Fred, and Sam are sent back in time by a magic book, they find themselves face to face with giants, dragons, wizards, King Arthur, and the Knights of the Round Table. |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 1180 |
3.9 |
780 |
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 |
41 |
Total # of Words |
3141 |
# of Different Words |
866 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
7 |
Hi Freq occurs |
2198 |
70% |
# of Hi freq words |
363 |
41.9% |
| % of Long Sentences |
5.6 |
Low Freq occurs |
203 |
6.5% |
# of Low freq words |
134 |
15.5% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Dialog: Multiple speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
| Inferences: Some implications |
| Complexity: Several ideas - closely related |
| Concept: Fanciful |
| Sequence of Events: Chronological |
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| Features |
| Character traits |
| Simple Plot |
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| Topics |
| Time |
| Giants |
| *History |
| Magic |
| Dragons |
| Knights |
| *Family & Friends |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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abracadabra |
amusement |
audience |
besieged |
challenge |
charged |
companions |
concentrate |
cursed |
daredevil |
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demon |
disappearing |
doubt |
drawn |
dungeon |
eenie |
enchanters |
enchantment |
facedown |
fault |
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fellow |
fellowship |
foul |
galahad |
garb |
gasping |
gawain |
glinted |
guenevere |
guenevere's |
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hails |
halt |
hanged |
hast |
heavyweight |
hefty |
heroic |
hinges |
hocus |
honor |
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idiot |
infidels |
instant |
jeans |
jester |
kebab |
killjoy |
knaves |
knight |
knight's |
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knights |
knowest |
ladies |
lancelot |
likewise |
lowered |
magician |
magicians |
magnificent |
majesty |
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mayhap |
meenie |
mere |
methinks |
mightily |
mount |
mouthed |
murmured |
muttered |
mynie |
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nyah |
oaken |
oohed |
ought |
outta |
palms |
passenger |
percival |
pocus |
pose |
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positively |
praise |
rectangular |
refrigerator |
relieved |
reshuffled |
reward |
rike |
ringeth |
runaway |
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sardine |
sayeth |
scourge |
sesame |
shield |
shish |
shuffled |
sire |
sirs |
slew |
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smaug |
sorcerers |
spurred |
staff |
stalled |
stee |
suits |
superman |
surrounded |
surrounding |
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sweating |
swirl |
sword |
swords |
thankest |
thou |
thundered |
torches |
vanquish |
vile |
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visor |
volunteer |
waggled |
weakly |
weird |
wheezed |
whistled |
willies |
wisps |
wizards |
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wobbled |
wrapping |
yahoo |
yon |
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