| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Louis always interrupts! All of his thoughts are very important to him, and when he has something to say, his words rumble and grumble in his tummy, they wiggle and jiggle on his tongue, and then they push on his teeth right before he ERUPTS (or interrupts). His mouth is a volcano! |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 264 |
2.1 |
520 |
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 |
34 |
Total # of Words |
1037 |
# of Different Words |
288 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
10 |
Hi Freq occurs |
666 |
64.2% |
# of Hi freq words |
128 |
44.4% |
| % of Long Sentences |
6.2 |
Low Freq occurs |
15 |
1.4% |
# of Low freq words |
9 |
3.1% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Dialog: Two speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Many descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
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| Features |
| Character development |
| First Person |
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| Topics |
| Talking |
| Manners |
| *Feelings, Behaviors |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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breathed |
emergency |
fault |
interrupt |
interrupted |
interrupting |
patiently |
sylvia |
volcanoes |
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