| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Text and humorous illustrations survey some of the biggest, smallest, longest, and fastest things in the world. |
Inform |
Informational |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 666 |
3.1 |
670 |
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 |
27 |
Total # of Words |
1208 |
# of Different Words |
390 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
8 |
Hi Freq occurs |
789 |
65.3% |
# of Hi freq words |
140 |
35.9% |
| % of Long Sentences |
0.7 |
Low Freq occurs |
40 |
3.3% |
# of Low freq words |
35 |
9% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Formal |
| Inferences: Some implications |
| Complexity: Several unrelated ideas |
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| Features |
| Difficult names |
| Foreign words |
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| Topics |
| Size |
| Spatial Sense |
| Temperature |
| Puzzles |
| Challenges |
| Speed |
| Records |
| Numbers |
| Places |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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anaconda |
brachiosaurus |
chihuahua |
diaper |
diapers |
everest |
farthest |
fellow |
heaviest |
illinois |
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libya |
luckily |
mammal |
measure |
mount |
nepal |
ostrich |
redwood |
redwoods |
republic |
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saguaro |
sailfish |
saint |
sears |
seventy |
siberian |
sideways |
soviet |
spine |
thread |
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tibet |
union |
vostok |
weighed |
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