| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Ricky loves all of his classes in school. But when his Reading and Writing teacher assigns the class an assignment to write a story using words that rhyme, Ricky gets worried:
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Entertain |
Poetry |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 494 |
2.7 |
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 |
41 |
Total # of Words |
596 |
# of Different Words |
280 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
13 |
Hi Freq occurs |
381 |
63.9% |
# of Hi freq words |
116 |
41.4% |
| % of Long Sentences |
26.7 |
Low Freq occurs |
28 |
4.7% |
# of Low freq words |
22 |
7.9% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Some Long/Complex |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
| Bold/Italicized Words |
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| Features |
| Character development |
| Rhyming |
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| Topics |
| Writing |
| Rhyme |
| Learning |
| *Schools & Education |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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éclair |
bria |
caboose |
doubt |
fashion |
flair |
lyrical |
oodles |
poet |
presented |
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refusing |
rhyme |
rhymes |
rhyming |
rhyming's |
science |
shone |
smirk |
strudels |
sublime |
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uptight |
yield |
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