| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| This is a fictionalized account of the empress of China's discovery, around 2700 B.C., that the cocoons of the worms in her mulberry trees were made of fine, shiny, silken thread which could be made into beautiful cloth. |
Entertain |
Folk Tales |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 850 |
3.4 |
710 |
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 |
30 |
Total # of Words |
1089 |
# of Different Words |
446 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
10 |
Hi Freq occurs |
643 |
59% |
# of Hi freq words |
159 |
35.7% |
| % of Long Sentences |
6.6 |
Low Freq occurs |
126 |
11.6% |
# of Low freq words |
81 |
18.2% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Dialog: Multiple speakers |
| Vocabulary: Some difficult words |
| Language: Many descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
| Inferences: Some implications |
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| Features |
| Integral Setting - Historical |
| Integral Setting - Cultural/Regional |
| Difficult names |
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| Topics |
| *History |
| Sewing |
| Worms |
| Discovery |
| Kings/Queens |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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adviser |
advisers |
approached |
bellied |
billowing |
chi |
cocoon |
cocoons |
concern |
craftsmen |
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delicate |
delicious |
emperor |
empress |
empress's |
exhausted |
fabric |
fiery |
fortune |
gardeners |
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glimpse |
glistens |
grove |
groves |
highness |
honorable |
huang |
image |
imperial |
inspected |
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invisible |
kingdom |
labor |
lacquer |
ladies |
looms |
lustrous |
magical |
maidservant |
miraculous |
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mooncakes |
moonlight |
mulberry |
noble |
observed |
origin |
ourselves |
overseeing |
paraded |
phoenix |
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pillars |
plucking |
precious |
procession |
production |
reels |
royal |
servants |
shimmers |
shone |
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shuddering |
silkworm |
silvery |
splendid |
strand |
strands |
stroll |
surrounded |
symbol |
tangle |
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thread |
threads |
throughout |
truly |
uncoil |
unravel |
unwinding |
unwound |
wormy |
woven |
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wrinkling |
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