| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| From zippy little pebbles to big strong boulders, the rock friends get together to play and roll around their favorite hill, only to find that one of their friends, Ricky, can't roll with them. Unlike all of the other rocks, who are all round, Ricky can't roll because he's flat on one side.
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Entertain |
Concept |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 546 |
2.8 |
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 |
43 |
Total # of Words |
655 |
# of Different Words |
309 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
13 |
Hi Freq occurs |
405 |
61.8% |
# of Hi freq words |
120 |
38.8% |
| % of Long Sentences |
35.4 |
Low Freq occurs |
40 |
6.1% |
# of Low freq words |
38 |
12.3% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Dialog: Simple |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Many descriptive words |
| Sentences: Some Long/Complex |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
| Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social |
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| Features |
| Simple problem/solution |
| Simple Plot |
| Rhyming |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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announced |
boulder |
breathed |
bria |
dejected |
depressed |
determined |
ebert |
eureka |
flair |
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genius |
giggly |
globs |
granite |
humble |
ignatious |
impressive |
increasing |
knoll |
maya |
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meteorite |
mound |
physique |
pondered |
pure |
replies |
resolve |
sassy |
sculpted |
shared |
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sided |
smoothed |
surely |
surge |
surrounded |
trait |
who'd |
zagging |
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