| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| The Elephant takes the Bad Baby for a ride and they go "rumpeta, rumpeta, rumpeta down the road." |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 212 |
2.0 |
470 |
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 |
45 |
Total # of Words |
900 |
# of Different Words |
116 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
15 |
Hi Freq occurs |
507 |
56.3% |
# of Hi freq words |
48 |
41.4% |
| % of Long Sentences |
20.7 |
Low Freq occurs |
20 |
2.2% |
# of Low freq words |
6 |
5.2% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Dialog: Simple |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Some Long/Complex |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
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| Topics |
| Elephants |
| *Animals |
| *Feelings, Behaviors |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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butcher |
butcher's |
gingersnaps |
grocer |
grocery |
snackshop |
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