| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Take a rollicking ride through the Wild, Wild West with the original cowboy, Pecos Bill. Raised by coyotes to brave the great frontier, Pecos rides his wild mustang Widow-Maker and invents the first rough-and-tumble cattle drive. |
Entertain |
Tall Tales |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 1299 |
4.1 |
790 |
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 |
32 |
Total # of Words |
2715 |
# of Different Words |
800 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
14 |
Hi Freq occurs |
1958 |
72.1% |
# of Hi freq words |
325 |
40.6% |
| % of Long Sentences |
21.3 |
Low Freq occurs |
188 |
6.9% |
# of Low freq words |
146 |
18.3% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Dialog: Multiple speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Many descriptive words |
| Sentences: Some Long/Complex |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
| Concept: Fanciful |
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| Features |
| Integral Setting |
| Retelling of story/fable/legend |
| Dialect/Accents |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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advantage |
alongs |
ambled |
appealing |
backlash |
bawled |
blamedest |
buckeroo |
cantankerous |
chalk |
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charged |
chasing |
commenced |
companion |
conestoga |
conquer |
convinced |
cougar |
cowpokes |
cowpunchers |
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coyotes |
crazier |
dandiest |
dingedest |
dude |
duds |
feller |
fellers |
flatlands |
flattered |
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frontwards |
g'wan |
generally |
giddap |
gonedest |
grande |
guarantee |
gull |
heeled |
hemmed |
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hollered |
honored |
hootenanny |
hooves |
horizon |
hossie |
independent |
inquired |
introductions |
investigated |
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jackrabbit |
jeepers |
kindly |
lair |
language |
lariat |
lariats |
lassoed |
lawful |
lingo |
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loco |
longhorns |
longing |
loosen |
lovebirds |
lovesick |
lowered |
luckily |
mention |
mere |
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mount |
mountaintop |
mundane |
mustang |
muster |
naked |
naturally |
neighborly |
neighbors |
notions |
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ordinary |
ornery |
otherwise |
ourselves |
overtake |
parted |
partner |
partners |
passenger |
pecos |
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perturbed |
pioneering |
pioneers |
plains |
polecat |
porkbelly |
prairie |
proposal |
prospect |
prospects |
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puncher |
purdiest |
rattler |
realize |
reckon |
recognized |
ridge |
rio |
rounding |
saddlebag |
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salmon |
scouting |
sentimental |
shucks |
sidled |
situation |
sliding |
slue |
snarling |
sourdough |
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spending |
squatters |
stranded |
stride |
sunning |
swallowed |
swirling |
tarnation |
texican |
texicans |
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that'll |
tidy |
tornado |
twelfth |
ugliest |
unfroze |
unsociable |
veins |
vengeance |
wander |
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whittle |
whooped |
widow |
worth |
yanked |
young'uns |
youngest |
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