Title - Too Many Babas
Author: Croll, Carolyn
Publisher: HarperTrophy

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
The soup Baba Edis requested to warm her frail bones is spoiled when Baba Basha, Baba Yetti, and Baba Molka each decide something--salt, pepper, garlic--is missing. Entertain Folk Tales
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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246 2.1 510
RDQ based on a maximum of 3000 words Levels are suggested levels based on RDQ, not official levels
Sentences Total Words Different Words
Max Word/Sent 29 Total # of Words 836 # of Different Words 261
Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 491 58.7% # of Hi freq words 105 40.2%
% of Long Sentences 5.6 Low Freq occurs 25 3% # of Low freq words 13 5%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Dialog: Multiple speakers
Dialog: Broken dialogue
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Simple language
Sentences: Simple phrases
Text structure: Blend of written/oral
Features
Topics
Sharing
Cooperation
Cooking
Food
Helping
*Family & Friends
Low Frequency Words
aroma delicious fistful garlic grinder ladled marketplace measured onion spicy
stockings whiff