| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| To the Gregg family, hunting is just plain fun. To the girl who lives next door, it's just plain horrible. She tries to be polite. She tries to talk them out of it, but the Greggs only laugh at her. Then one day the Greggs go too far, and the little girl turns her Magic Finger on them. |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 622 |
3.0 |
660 |
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 |
41 |
Total # of Words |
1990 |
# of Different Words |
482 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
8 |
Hi Freq occurs |
1475 |
74.1% |
# of Hi freq words |
246 |
51% |
| % of Long Sentences |
9.2 |
Low Freq occurs |
10 |
0.5% |
# of Low freq words |
9 |
1.9% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Dialog: Multiple speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Some Long/Complex |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
| Inferences: Some implications |
| Concept: Fanciful |
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| Features |
| Clear cause/effect |
| Simple Plot |
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| Topics |
| Changes |
| Searching/Hunting |
| Magic |
| *Animals |
| Birds |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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chirruped |
flown |
forefinger |
laughter |
madly |
terribly |
tingle |
towards |
whiskers |
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