| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Parents and children take turns to read from the page (the text clearly marked for who should be reading) and as the books progress in the series the adults read less and less and the child more and more. |
Entertain |
Concept |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 129 |
1.5 |
170 |
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 |
21 |
Total # of Words |
158 |
# of Different Words |
83 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
6 |
Hi Freq occurs |
80 |
50.6% |
# of Hi freq words |
26 |
31.3% |
| % of Long Sentences |
4.2 |
Low Freq occurs |
7 |
4.4% |
# of Low freq words |
5 |
6% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Speech Bubbles |
| Dialog: Simple |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Simple phrases |
| Text structure: Oral/Natural |
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| Topics |
| Doctors |
| Kings/Queens |
| Medicine |
| Rain |
| *Human Body & Health |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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footman |
frets |
gathering |
trill |
wail |
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