| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Having befriended a young girl who is unable to walk, Lad risks his life to save her from a poisonous snake. Based on Albert Payson Terhune's popular stories from the 1920s, the first installment in a new series introduces Lad, a purebred collie whose bravery saves the life of a little girl. |
Entertain |
Realistic Fiction |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 620 |
3.0 |
660 |
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 |
16 |
Total # of Words |
1436 |
# of Different Words |
492 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
7 |
Hi Freq occurs |
930 |
64.8% |
# of Hi freq words |
195 |
39.6% |
| % of Long Sentences |
0 |
Low Freq occurs |
44 |
3.1% |
# of Low freq words |
32 |
6.5% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Dialog: Two speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Many descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
| Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social |
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| Features |
| Clear cause/effect |
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| Topics |
| Snakes |
| Dogs |
| Danger |
| Protection |
| *Animals |
| Health |
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acres |
bury |
calmly |
charged |
copperhead |
courage |
curled |
frantic |
grimy |
illness |
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injured |
marsh |
miracle |
mistress |
obey |
oozed |
pleaded |
poisonous |
sickly |
snakebite |
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spine |
stirred |
survived |
swelling |
swollen |
thudded |
urge |
urged |
warn |
whirled |
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wisdom |
wrestled |
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