| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| A small boy imagines what it would be like to have his own rainbow to play with. |
Entertain |
Realistic Fiction |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 219 |
2.0 |
480 |
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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 |
28 |
Total # of Words |
266 |
# of Different Words |
136 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
13 |
Hi Freq occurs |
160 |
60.2% |
# of Hi freq words |
56 |
41.2% |
| % of Long Sentences |
20 |
Low Freq occurs |
4 |
1.5% |
# of Low freq words |
4 |
2.9% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
| Concept: Fanciful |
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| Topics |
| *Weather |
| Colors |
| Rainbows |
| Games |
| Imagination |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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hammock |
peacock |
whirls |
whirring |
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