| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| There was an old lady who swallowed a fly. I don't know why she swallowed the fly. She won't say why. |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 112 |
1.4 |
150 |
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 |
319 |
# of Different Words |
57 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
7 |
Hi Freq occurs |
135 |
42.3% |
# of Hi freq words |
18 |
31.6% |
| % of Long Sentences |
2.4 |
Low Freq occurs |
5 |
1.6% |
# of Low freq words |
4 |
7% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: High support |
| Repeated patterns in cumulative form |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Simple language |
| Sentences: Captions/Simple |
| Text structure: Oral/Natural |
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| Topics |
| Puzzles |
| *Animals |
| *Feelings, Behaviors |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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absurd |
swallow |
swallowed |
swallowing |
wriggled |
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