| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| When Christopher goes into the basement and sees a pile of play clay in the corner, he decides to cook up some mischief. He shapes the clay into cookies, and then decorates them with sugar, icing and raisins, all of play clay. Christopher's parents are touched when he presents them with a beautiful batch of cookies. |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 258 |
2.1 |
510 |
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 |
30 |
Total # of Words |
508 |
# of Different Words |
139 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
7 |
Hi Freq occurs |
235 |
46.3% |
# of Hi freq words |
62 |
44.6% |
| % of Long Sentences |
23.2 |
Low Freq occurs |
29 |
5.7% |
# of Low freq words |
8 |
5.8% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Dialog: Two speakers |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
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| Topics |
| Cooking |
| Tricking |
| Food |
| Tastes/Tasting |
| *Home Arts & Food |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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burble |
icing |
plunk |
raisins |
scritch |
scrunch |
whap |
whapped |
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