| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Children have a natural curiosity about the vast world of space. Featuring bright illustration and simple sentences, this book shows our solar system, including all planets and dwarf planets, in a way young readers can understand.
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Inform |
Informational |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 572 |
2.9 |
650 |
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 |
20 |
Total # of Words |
1085 |
# of Different Words |
380 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
7 |
Hi Freq occurs |
609 |
56.1% |
# of Hi freq words |
144 |
37.9% |
| % of Long Sentences |
0 |
Low Freq occurs |
68 |
6.3% |
# of Low freq words |
39 |
10.3% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Simple graphics supplementary to text comprehension |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Oral/Natural |
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| Table of Contents |
| Chapters |
| Headings |
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| Features |
| Integral Setting |
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| Topics |
| *Space |
| Sun |
| Stars |
| Planets |
| Astronauts |
| Earth |
| Moon |
| Galaxy |
| Universe |
| Rockets |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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astronaut |
astronauts |
environment |
everest |
exploring |
galore |
haumea |
hurricane |
hurricanes |
invisible |
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liquid |
makemake |
materials |
measure |
mercury |
microscopes |
mission |
mons |
mount |
neptune |
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object |
objects |
olympus |
photographs |
probe |
probes |
rainfall |
reflect |
rover |
solar |
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spacecraft |
submarines |
swirl |
system's |
titan |
uranus |
venus |
weirdest |
windiest |
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