| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| His classmates' taunts do not stop Oliver Button from doing what he likes best, as he must come to terms with being teased and ostracized because he'd rather read books, paint pictures, and tap-dance than participate in sports. |
Entertain |
Realistic Fiction |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 373 |
2.4 |
590 |
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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 |
23 |
Total # of Words |
663 |
# of Different Words |
260 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
7 |
Hi Freq occurs |
367 |
55.4% |
# of Hi freq words |
97 |
37.3% |
| % of Long Sentences |
2.3 |
Low Freq occurs |
28 |
4.2% |
# of Low freq words |
20 |
7.7% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Dialog: Two speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
| Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social |
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| Features |
| Character traits |
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| Topics |
| *Feelings, Behaviors |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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accordion |
announce |
announced |
audience |
baton |
ceremonies |
gonna |
gotta |
ladies |
magician |
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performed |
practiced |
routine |
schoolyard |
spotlight |
teasingly |
theater |
twirler |
twirling |
whistled |
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