| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| When all the citizens of Littletown are swept up in a big fishing contest, the big fish stories abound, in a humorous early reader's story that introduces non-standard measurements and explains standard measuring and comparing. |
Entertain |
Realistic Fiction |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 225 |
2.0 |
480 |
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 |
17 |
Total # of Words |
543 |
# of Different Words |
194 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
5 |
Hi Freq occurs |
318 |
58.6% |
# of Hi freq words |
76 |
39.2% |
| % of Long Sentences |
0 |
Low Freq occurs |
11 |
2% |
# of Low freq words |
6 |
3.1% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Dialog: Multiple speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Simple phrases |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
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| Topics |
| Size |
| Competition |
| Fish |
| Measurement |
| *Fictional Ideas/Charac |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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firefighter |
heaviest |
loaves |
surely |
townspeople |
zookeeper |
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