| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Lonely Miss Spider tries to host a tea party, but the other bugs refuse to come for fear of being eaten. Miss Spider can't understand why insects flee in panic at her approach. |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 581 |
2.9 |
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 |
31 |
Total # of Words |
592 |
# of Different Words |
333 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
11 |
Hi Freq occurs |
313 |
52.9% |
# of Hi freq words |
109 |
32.7% |
| % of Long Sentences |
7.8 |
Low Freq occurs |
38 |
6.4% |
# of Low freq words |
38 |
11.4% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Dialog: Two speakers |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Many descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
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| Topics |
| Spiders |
| Arachnids |
| Bugs |
| Parties |
| Insects |
| *Family & Friends |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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alas |
alight |
assembled |
bouquet |
brewed |
centerpiece |
concealed |
cough |
courtesy |
dainty |
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descending |
dread |
fragile |
gazing |
hostess |
ignored |
jagged |
mortal |
munched |
nook |
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numbered |
peered |
perched |
platoon |
presented |
reputation |
saucers |
service |
silken |
spidery |
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spied |
strode |
thread |
thunderstorm |
timid |
trio |
violets |
who'd |
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