| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Penguin Pete befriends Horatio, a mouse dwelling on a shipwreck, and finds that he has a lot to learn about life on board a ship
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Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 469 |
2.6 |
630 |
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 |
26 |
Total # of Words |
657 |
# of Different Words |
302 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
8 |
Hi Freq occurs |
395 |
60.1% |
# of Hi freq words |
114 |
37.7% |
| % of Long Sentences |
6.1 |
Low Freq occurs |
35 |
5.3% |
# of Low freq words |
34 |
11.3% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Dialog: Two speakers |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
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| Topics |
| Exploration/Explorers |
| Friendship |
| Ships |
| *Feelings, Behaviors |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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abandon |
aboard |
announced |
clambered |
cowering |
cranny |
debt |
entangled |
exploring |
jagged |
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lowered |
mesh |
nervously |
nimbly |
nook |
paddled |
penguin |
planks |
plunged |
ratio |
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rustling |
saluted |
scampered |
scurried |
seasick |
seaworthy |
shipmate |
smartly |
startled |
storeroom |
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tangled |
tattered |
timbers |
waddled |
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