Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.3
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
254
Points per Word
0.001969
Page Count
28
Points per Page
0.017857
Series
Andersen Press Picture Books
Description
In "The T-Rex Who Lost His Specs!" by Jeanne Willis, a dinosaur named T-Rex loses his glasses and experiences a series of humorous mishaps as a result. Without his glasses, heconfuses everyday objects like breakfast toast with a slipper and mistakes a prehistoric owl for his bath towel. The story follows T-Rex as he struggles to tell the difference between objects and possibly between enemies and friends. The book is intended for readers in lower elementary grades (K-3) with a reading level of 3.3.