APPENDIX C9
GRADE LEVEL ANALYSIS OF TARGET VOCABULARY RANDOMLY SELECTED FROM EYEWITNESS
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NATURE (Indirect-approach Group)
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Target Word |
Dale List of 3,000 Familiar Words (Chall & Dale, 1995) |
Ginn Word Book for Teachers Grade Level (Johnson, Moe, & Baumann, 1983) |
Living Word Book Grade Level (Dale & O’Rourke, 1981) |
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families |
x (family) |
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fruit |
x |
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owl |
x |
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seeds |
x (seed) |
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prey |
2 |
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arctic poppy |
4 (each word) |
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binocular vision |
4 (each word) |
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cacti |
4 (cactus) |
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host |
4 |
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hummingbird |
4 |
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socket |
4 |
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strangler fig |
4 (strangler); 6 (fig) |
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fragrant waterlily |
5 (fragrant) |
4 (waterlily) |
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buttercup |
6 |
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nectar |
6 |
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pollinated |
6 (pollinate) |
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roost |
6 |
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tropical |
6 |
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breeding |
8 |
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habitat |
8 |
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pellets |
8 (pellet) |
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primrose |
8 |
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species |
8 |
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hovering |
10 |
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plumage |
10 |
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bog bilberry |
10 (bog); 12 (bilberry) |
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cotyledons |
12 (cotyledon) |
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deciduous |
12 |
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prickly pear |
12 |
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saguaro |
12 |
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tundra |
12 |
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vertebrate |
12 |
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nocturnal |
16 |
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Words not listed in sources cited above: dicot plants (although plant is a 1st grade word), Jurassic, purple saxifrage (although purple is in the Dale list of 3,000 familiar words).