| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Madcap revisions of familiar fairy tales, including 'Jack and the Bean Soup,' 'Goldilocks and the Three Elephants,' and 'Cinderumplestilskin.' |
Entertain |
Fairy Tales |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 1122 |
3.8 |
760 |
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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 |
37 |
Total # of Words |
3085 |
# of Different Words |
660 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
8 |
Hi Freq occurs |
2280 |
73.9% |
# of Hi freq words |
305 |
46.2% |
| % of Long Sentences |
6.4 |
Low Freq occurs |
77 |
2.5% |
# of Low freq words |
51 |
7.7% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Unconventional format |
| Vocabulary: Some difficult words |
| Language: Many descriptive words |
| Sentences: Some Long/Complex |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
| Inferences: Some implications |
| Complexity: Several unrelated ideas |
| Concept: Fanciful |
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| Features |
| Retelling of story/fable/legend |
| Difficult names |
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| Topics |
| *Fictional Ideas/Charac |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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announced |
contents |
crowed |
dedicated |
dedication |
dependable |
dwarves |
enchantment |
endpaper |
fabulous |
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funky |
gross |
handsome |
harvested |
honestly |
ignored |
illustrator |
incredibly |
introduction |
knocks |
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licken |
magical |
mattress |
mattresses |
messes |
olives |
pardon |
pathetic |
personal |
president |
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rhyme |
royal |
rumpelstiltskin |
satisfied |
seventh |
shortcut |
smoothly |
snuff |
squashed |
steprelatives |
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stepsisters |
stomachaches |
surely |
swan |
tortoise |
unbelievably |
uppercase |
warn |
watered |
wears |
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wrecking |
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