| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| A young woman tells her son, throughout his childhood, how she loves him, until a time when the son has a daughter of his own and passes on the same message of love. |
Entertain |
Realistic Fiction |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 229 |
2.0 |
490 |
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 |
51 |
Total # of Words |
753 |
# of Different Words |
165 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
16 |
Hi Freq occurs |
457 |
60.7% |
# of Hi freq words |
64 |
38.8% |
| % of Long Sentences |
38.3 |
Low Freq occurs |
3 |
0.4% |
# of Low freq words |
3 |
1.8% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Several repetitions of phrases or refrains |
| Dialog: Simple |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
| Inferences: Some implications |
| Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social |
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| Topics |
| Mothers |
| Children |
| Babies |
| Age/Aging |
| *Family & Friends |
| *Feelings, Behaviors |
| Relationships |
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flushed |
refrigerator |
shelves |
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