| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| What's all this madness about money? Long ago, people traded rocks or sheep for the items they wanted, but rocks were heavy and sheep ran away. This beginning guide to economics will have readers thinking about the purpose, and not just the value, of money.
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Inform |
Informational |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 761 |
3.2 |
690 |
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 |
1179 |
# of Different Words |
356 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
11 |
Hi Freq occurs |
749 |
63.5% |
# of Hi freq words |
140 |
39.3% |
| % of Long Sentences |
15.4 |
Low Freq occurs |
49 |
4.2% |
# of Low freq words |
34 |
9.6% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Simple graphics supplementary to text comprehension |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Some Long/Complex |
| Text structure: Oral/Natural |
| Prior Knowledge: Familiarity |
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| Topics |
| Money |
| Buying/Selling |
| Trading/Swapping |
| *Economics |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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account |
astronauts |
barter |
bartering |
clamshells |
digital |
download |
gatherer |
gatherers |
harvest |
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heavier |
ingredients |
israel |
knit |
loaves |
madness |
metals |
mexican |
pesos |
pockets |
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portrait |
rand |
reals |
relation |
rubles |
shear |
shekels |
sickly |
sufficient |
sweater |
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trades |
valued |
worth |
yuan |
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