| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| When Abe was a little boy, his family was too poor to allow him to go to school. Discover how he bought his own business, taught himself law, and became a U.S. President. |
Entertain |
Biographies/Auto |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 297 |
2.2 |
540 |
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 |
23 |
Total # of Words |
578 |
# of Different Words |
267 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
9 |
Hi Freq occurs |
322 |
55.7% |
# of Hi freq words |
95 |
35.6% |
| % of Long Sentences |
3.1 |
Low Freq occurs |
21 |
3.6% |
# of Low freq words |
16 |
6% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Simple phrases |
| Text structure: Oral/Natural |
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| Features |
| Character traits |
| Integral Setting - Historical |
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| Topics |
| *History |
| Learning |
| American History |
| Presidents |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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borrow |
borrowed |
determined |
fetched |
government |
kentucky |
lawyer |
memorial |
nation |
partner |
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president |
sawmill |
schoolhouse |
sixteenth |
splitting |
studied |
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