| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Welcome to a lush meadow bustling with activity, where one turtle digs, two fish swim, three bluebirds sing, and so on to ten fireflies that shine in the night. In this book, an old nursery poem introduces animals and their young and the numbers one through ten. |
Entertain |
Concept |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 183 |
1.8 |
320 |
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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 |
20 |
Total # of Words |
381 |
# of Different Words |
97 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
9 |
Hi Freq occurs |
194 |
50.9% |
# of Hi freq words |
16 |
16.5% |
| % of Long Sentences |
0 |
Low Freq occurs |
12 |
3.1% |
# of Low freq words |
7 |
7.2% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Dialog: Two speakers |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Simple phrases |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
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| Topics |
| Counting |
| *Math |
| Numbers |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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basked |
cawed |
gnaw |
gnawed |
meadow |
ratties |
whooed |
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