| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| A holiday counting book with rhymes and alliteration depicting how the six sheep dressed as creepy ghosts are frightened off, one-by-one, by trick-or-treaters until only one creepy sheep is left to knock on the door of a lonely barn. |
Entertain |
Concept |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 187 |
1.9 |
350 |
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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 |
30 |
Total # of Words |
172 |
# of Different Words |
55 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
15 |
Hi Freq occurs |
56 |
32.6% |
# of Hi freq words |
12 |
21.8% |
| % of Long Sentences |
36.4 |
Low Freq occurs |
19 |
11% |
# of Low freq words |
10 |
18.2% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Several repetitions of phrases or refrains |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Oral/Natural |
| Concept: Fanciful |
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| Topics |
| Pirates |
| Fears |
| *Animals |
| Costumes |
| *Math |
| *Feelings, Behaviors |
| *Holidays, Events, Cele |
| Halloween |
| Numbers |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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fairies |
gaggle |
goblins |
halloween |
haunting |
herd |
passel |
shriek |
warren |
whisked |
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