| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Mike and his trusty steam shovel, Mary Anne, dig deep canals for boats to travel through, cut mountain passes for trains, and hollow out cellars for city skyscrapers -- the very symbol of industrial America. But with progress come new machines, and soon the inseparable duo are out of work. |
Entertain |
Realistic Fiction |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 964 |
3.6 |
730 |
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 |
50 |
Total # of Words |
1691 |
# of Different Words |
397 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
12 |
Hi Freq occurs |
1076 |
63.6% |
# of Hi freq words |
175 |
44.1% |
| % of Long Sentences |
19.4 |
Low Freq occurs |
57 |
3.4% |
# of Low freq words |
25 |
6.3% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Dialog: Multiple speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Many descriptive words |
| Sentences: Many Long Complex |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
| Inferences: Several Implications |
| Complexity: Several ideas - closely related |
| Concept: Fanciful |
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| Features |
| Character traits |
| Simple problem/solution |
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| Topics |
| Changes |
| Work |
| Machines |
| Relationships |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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cellar |
cellars |
constable |
curves |
diesel |
furnace |
gasoline |
gravel |
janitor |
kipperville |
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kopperville |
lowered |
mcgillicuddy |
milkman |
motor |
mulligan |
popperville |
postman |
selectmen |
shovel |
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shovels |
skyscrapers |
smoothed |
straightened |
swap |
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