| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Once again Joe's Book works its warped magic on Joe and his friends as the Time Warp Trio zoom back in time to 1868 and the days of the wild west. Stampeded by cows while being cowboys, Joe, Sam, and Fred find the Wild West just a bit too wild, and wonder if it would be better to be Indians. |
Entertain |
Realistic Fiction |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 1512 |
4.3 |
830 |
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 |
43 |
Total # of Words |
3435 |
# of Different Words |
990 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
7 |
Hi Freq occurs |
2410 |
70.2% |
# of Hi freq words |
404 |
40.8% |
| % of Long Sentences |
4 |
Low Freq occurs |
173 |
5% |
# of Low freq words |
129 |
13% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: No support |
| Dialog: Multiple speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker |
| Vocabulary: Some difficult words |
| Language: Many descriptive words |
| Sentences: Some Long/Complex |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
| Inferences: Some implications |
| Complexity: Several ideas - closely related |
| Concept: Fanciful |
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| Features |
| Simple Plot |
| Dialect/Accents |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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absentmindedly |
adjusted |
adventures |
biscuits |
burped |
bury |
cafeteria |
cain't |
calmly |
cavalry |
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chaps |
charged |
charging |
chillum |
circling |
concentrate |
cryptic |
curse |
cussed |
dickory |
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dimwits |
dirtier |
dishing |
dissolved |
doggies |
dude |
durn |
eases |
edges |
effect |
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emptied |
escaped |
exposure |
eyed |
fella |
forkful |
forsaken |
future |
general |
gobbled |
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greenhorns |
handled |
herd |
herd's |
hickok |
hickory |
holster |
hooves |
horizon |
hypothermia |
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idjits |
iffen |
inscriptions |
introduce |
jabbering |
jangling |
jeans |
lieutenant |
longhorn |
magician |
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messages |
mexican |
mindless |
mite |
mooed |
mooing |
nag |
naw |
ne |
nervously |
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nightfall |
nowhere |
pardners |
pellets |
prairie |
reddish |
reined |
reinforcing |
reject |
rhyme |
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rhymed |
ridge |
runaway |
rustle |
saddlebag |
scalped |
science |
scraggly |
scrawny |
scrubby |
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scruffy |
seventh |
sideways |
sioux |
smacked |
social |
sopped |
spoonful |
spooning |
spurs |
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staggered |
stampede |
stampeded |
stampeding |
starvation |
stereotypes |
sunburn |
swirl |
swirled |
swirling |
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tenderhearted |
thingamabob |
thundered |
thundering |
thunderstorm |
tobacco |
trampling |
vultures |
warn |
wha |
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whatchamacallit |
whipped |
whistled |
whizzes |
wisp |
wizards |
yankee |
yosemite |
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