| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| First, his hair started falling out. Then skin started peeling from his toes. Some stuffing came out of his belly button, and a piece of something gray and wet -- his brain? -- fell out of his nose. Is this normal? Or is this boy coming unglued? |
Entertain |
Concept |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 238 |
2.0 |
500 |
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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 |
41 |
Total # of Words |
408 |
# of Different Words |
214 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
11 |
Hi Freq occurs |
249 |
61% |
# of Hi freq words |
88 |
41.1% |
| % of Long Sentences |
19.4 |
Low Freq occurs |
9 |
2.2% |
# of Low freq words |
9 |
4.2% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Inferences: Some implications |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Simple phrases |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
| Complexity: Several ideas - closely related |
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| Topics |
| Body |
| Teeth |
| Changes |
| Growth/Growing |
| Health |
| Brains |
| *Human Body & Health |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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appalled |
comb |
cough |
dismayed |
horrified |
masking |
realize |
recall |
sprout |
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