| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Splat the Cat It's Splat's first day of school and he's worried. What if he doesn't make any new friends? Just in case, Splat decides to bring along his pet mouse, Seymour, and hides him in his lunchbox. |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 240 |
2.0 |
500 |
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 |
21 |
Total # of Words |
416 |
# of Different Words |
188 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
4 |
Hi Freq occurs |
217 |
52.2% |
# of Hi freq words |
69 |
36.7% |
| % of Long Sentences |
1.1 |
Low Freq occurs |
19 |
4.6% |
# of Low freq words |
9 |
4.8% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Dialog: Two speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Simple phrases |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
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| Features |
| Character development |
| Difficult names |
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| Topics |
| Teacher/Teaching |
| Cats |
| Mice |
| Learning |
| *Schools & Education |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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announced |
chalkboard |
combed |
lamppost |
lass |
lunchbox |
seymour |
seymour's |
wimpydimple |
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