| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| When Little Critter breaks his leg in a soccer game, he has to make his first trip to the hospital. Follow brave Little Critter as he rides in an ambulance, meets the doctor, and gets his first X-ray and his first cast. |
Entertain |
Traditional Fiction |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 262 |
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 |
24 |
Total # of Words |
493 |
# of Different Words |
215 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
9 |
Hi Freq occurs |
328 |
66.5% |
# of Hi freq words |
88 |
40.9% |
| % of Long Sentences |
3.9 |
Low Freq occurs |
9 |
1.8% |
# of Low freq words |
6 |
2.8% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
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| Topics |
| Body |
| Hospitals |
| Courage |
| *Human Body & Health |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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ambulance |
goalie |
stethoscope |
stretcher |
vision |
wrapping |
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