| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Everyone is talking about the neighborhood pet show, and Archie can't wait. His friends are bringing dogs and birds, and he is going to enter the cat who lives near by. But when it's time to go, the cat is nowhere to be found. The contest is about to start. What can Archie do? |
Entertain |
Realistic Fiction |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 263 |
2.1 |
520 |
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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 |
36 |
Total # of Words |
426 |
# of Different Words |
205 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
6 |
Hi Freq occurs |
240 |
56.3% |
# of Hi freq words |
89 |
43.4% |
| % of Long Sentences |
1.5 |
Low Freq occurs |
16 |
3.8% |
# of Low freq words |
12 |
5.9% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Simple language |
| Sentences: Simple phrases |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
| Concept: Fanciful |
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| Features |
| Simple problem/solution |
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| Topics |
| Sharing |
| Competition |
| Innovation |
| Cats |
| Chasing/Catching |
| *Animals |
| Imagination |
| Pets |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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announced |
busiest |
friendliest |
gonna |
handsomest |
hangouts |
independent |
judge |
judges |
noisiest |
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whiskers |
yellowest |
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