| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| The simplest elements often make the most enduring stories, as they have in this classic tale of a baby elephant whose mother tries to school him in human table manners. |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 279 |
2.1 |
530 |
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 |
29 |
Total # of Words |
546 |
# of Different Words |
221 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
8 |
Hi Freq occurs |
332 |
60.8% |
# of Hi freq words |
95 |
43% |
| % of Long Sentences |
1.6 |
Low Freq occurs |
10 |
1.8% |
# of Low freq words |
10 |
4.5% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Dialog: Simple |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Many descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
| Concept: Fanciful |
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| Topics |
| Manners |
| Clowns |
| Learning |
| Elephants |
| Animals: Circus |
| *Animals |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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awakened |
coaxed |
embarrassing |
flappy |
manage |
properly |
reared |
tablecloth |
zombie |
zombie's |
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