| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Mrs. Mallard was sure that the pond in the Boston Public Gardens would be a perfect place for her and her eight ducklings to live. But when the busy streets of Boston become too risky, the local police step in to make sure Mrs. Mallard and her ducklings make it to their new home safely. |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 657 |
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 |
33 |
Total # of Words |
1155 |
# of Different Words |
391 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
9 |
Hi Freq occurs |
741 |
64.2% |
# of Hi freq words |
165 |
42.2% |
| % of Long Sentences |
13.8 |
Low Freq occurs |
46 |
4% |
# of Low freq words |
26 |
6.6% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Dialog: Two speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Some Long/Complex |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
| Inferences: Some implications |
| Concept: Fanciful |
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| Topics |
| Water |
| Growth/Growing |
| Cities |
| Babies |
| Policemen |
| Habitat |
| Helping |
| *Animal Life |
| Birds |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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beacon |
beckoned |
dither |
further |
hatched |
headquarters |
horrid |
louisburg |
mallard |
mallards |
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meanwhile |
molt |
mount |
nack |
opposite |
policemen |
public |
quackers |
responsibility |
satisfied |
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suited |
swan |
swept |
vernon |
waddled |
walkin |
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