| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Sophie, who wants to be a lady farmer, gets a dog, goes on a holiday to the seaside, and has her first ride on a pony. |
Entertain |
Realistic Fiction |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
|
Find at |
| 938 |
3.5 |
730 |
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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 |
54 |
Total # of Words |
1562 |
# of Different Words |
503 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
8 |
Hi Freq occurs |
1084 |
69.4% |
# of Hi freq words |
217 |
43.1% |
| % of Long Sentences |
9.8 |
Low Freq occurs |
53 |
3.4% |
# of Low freq words |
40 |
8% |
| 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 |
| Captions |
| Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social |
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| Features |
| Character traits |
| Simple Plot |
| Unusual use of vocabulary |
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| Topics |
| Farms |
| Animals: Farm |
| Goals |
| *Feelings, Behaviors |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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admiring |
ambition |
approve |
bargain |
businesswoman |
conversation |
determined |
disapproval |
extremely |
highlands |
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housebroken |
hunched |
hutch |
ignorant |
immediately |
improved |
ingerant |
inhabitants |
largely |
measles |
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mysterious |
nameless |
narrows |
originally |
peered |
pence |
plodded |
renamed |
restless |
scornful |
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seventh |
shan't |
shorty |
sickening |
sounding |
squatted |
terrier |
tether |
tomboy |
wary |
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