| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Clifford wants to help Emily Elizabeth with her garden. He does not know much about seeds or how they grow. But he knows how to dig! |
Entertain |
Concept |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 231 |
2.0 |
490 |
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 |
19 |
Total # of Words |
362 |
# of Different Words |
184 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
6 |
Hi Freq occurs |
172 |
47.5% |
# of Hi freq words |
73 |
39.7% |
| % of Long Sentences |
0 |
Low Freq occurs |
9 |
2.5% |
# of Low freq words |
6 |
3.3% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Dialog: Simple |
| Vocabulary: Easy |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
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| Topics |
| Seeds |
| *Plants |
| Dogs |
| *Animals |
| Gardens/Gardening |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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courtyard |
daffodil |
delicious |
gardener |
sidarsky |
watered |
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