| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Once upon a time there was an old man and an old woman who were very lonely. They decided to get a cat, but when the old man went out searching, he found not one cat, but millions and billions and trillions of cats! Unable to decide which one would be the best pet, he brought them all home. |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 460 |
2.6 |
620 |
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 |
37 |
Total # of Words |
965 |
# of Different Words |
262 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
11 |
Hi Freq occurs |
685 |
71% |
# of Hi freq words |
123 |
46.9% |
| % of Long Sentences |
15.5 |
Low Freq occurs |
22 |
2.3% |
# of Low freq words |
11 |
4.2% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Dialog: Two speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Many descriptive words |
| Sentences: Some Long/Complex |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
| Inferences: Several Implications |
| Complexity: Several ideas - closely related |
| Concept: Fanciful |
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| Topics |
| Cats |
| Age/Aging |
| *Animals |
| Pets |
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grey |
joyfully |
mew |
mouthful |
ought |
prettiest |
quarrel |
quarreling |
scraggly |
trillions |
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trudged |
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