| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Children follow Sarah, a young spider monkey, as she observes and interacts with the other animals in the South American rain forest. |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 353 |
2.3 |
580 |
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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 |
13 |
Total # of Words |
301 |
# of Different Words |
138 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
6 |
Hi Freq occurs |
133 |
44.2% |
# of Hi freq words |
42 |
30.4% |
| % of Long Sentences |
0 |
Low Freq occurs |
12 |
4% |
# of Low freq words |
10 |
7.2% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Dialog: Simple |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Many descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Difficult |
| Concept: Fanciful |
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| Topics |
| Actions |
| Observation |
| Alphabet |
| Questions |
| *Animals |
| Habitat |
| Jungles |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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lightly |
macaw |
margay |
pose |
skink |
slyly |
surely |
terence |
towering |
trickier |
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