| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Their mother died the day after Caleb was born. Then Papa puts an ad in the paper, asking for a wife, and he receives a letter from one Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton, of Maine. Sarah decides to come for a month. |
Entertain |
Historical Fiction |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 1205 |
4.0 |
780 |
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 |
35 |
Total # of Words |
3477 |
# of Different Words |
866 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
8 |
Hi Freq occurs |
2590 |
74.5% |
# of Hi freq words |
386 |
44.6% |
| % of Long Sentences |
6.2 |
Low Freq occurs |
122 |
3.5% |
# of Low freq words |
94 |
10.9% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: No support |
| Dialog: Multiple speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Many descriptive words |
| Sentences: Some Long/Complex |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
| Inferences: Some implications |
| Complexity: Several ideas - closely related |
| Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social |
| Chapters |
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| Features |
| Character traits |
| Integral Setting - Historical |
| Simple Plot |
| First Person |
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| Topics |
| Mothers |
| *Family & Friends |
| *Feelings, Behaviors |
| Relationships |
| Sea |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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advertisement |
asters |
ayuh |
bass |
blanked |
conch |
cousins |
cruel |
curled |
curls |
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drawn |
echoed |
elisabeth |
enclosing |
energetic |
excitedly |
eyed |
familiar |
feisty |
fenced |
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flax |
flounder |
fogbound |
gathering |
goldenrod |
gophers |
gull |
gulls |
handouts |
harshly |
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hearthstones |
holler |
hollow |
hoping |
horrid |
hundredth |
insult |
kittiwake |
mannered |
marsh |
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murmured |
neighbor |
neighbors |
nighttime |
olive |
opinions |
oyster |
paddock |
patches |
paused |
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peering |
pitchfork |
plains |
prairie |
ragwort |
rascal |
razor |
roamer |
rough |
rounded |
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scallop |
seaside |
seriously |
shaded |
shingles |
shoveled |
shuffling |
smoothing |
spooned |
stall |
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stalls |
stirred |
straightened |
suspenders |
swept |
teakettle |
tennessee |
troublesome |
truly |
turnips |
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twentieth |
unfolded |
velvet |
violets |
watered |
wheaton |
whooped |
widened |
windbreak |
windmill |
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windowsill |
witting |
woodchuck |
woolly |
wretched |
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