| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Illustrations and rhyming text follow ten caterpillars as one wriggles up a flower stem, another sails across a garden pool, and one reaches an apple leaf, where something amazing happens. |
Entertain |
Concept |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 147 |
1.6 |
190 |
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 |
25 |
Total # of Words |
97 |
# of Different Words |
53 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
9 |
Hi Freq occurs |
29 |
29.9% |
# of Hi freq words |
8 |
15.1% |
| % of Long Sentences |
10 |
Low Freq occurs |
8 |
8.2% |
# of Low freq words |
8 |
15.1% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| 1 pattern excl open/close |
| Patterned but many changes |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Many descriptive words |
| Sentences: Simple phrases |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
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| Topics |
| Butterflies |
| Caterpillars |
| Counting |
| Food Chain |
| Food |
| Gardens/Gardening |
| Numbers |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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bower |
melon |
ninth |
patiently |
scaled |
seventh |
wren |
wriggled |
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