| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| On a listening walk with her father, a girl experiences the sounds of her neighborhood. Get ready to fill your ears with a world of wonderful and surprising sounds. |
Entertain |
Concept |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 272 |
2.1 |
520 |
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 |
23 |
Total # of Words |
786 |
# of Different Words |
242 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
8 |
Hi Freq occurs |
428 |
54.5% |
# of Hi freq words |
82 |
33.9% |
| % of Long Sentences |
1 |
Low Freq occurs |
22 |
2.8% |
# of Low freq words |
13 |
5.4% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
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| Topics |
| Senses |
| *Feelings, Behaviors |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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dup |
hurries |
jackhammer |
major |
major's |
mower |
mowers |
pigeons |
pockets |
waggle |
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whispers |
whrrrr |
woodpecker |
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