Title - A Kiss for Little Bear
Author: Minarik, Else Holmelund
Publisher: Harper & Row

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
Grandmother likes Little Bear's picture so much she sends him a thank you kiss. "Will you take it to him, Hen?" she says. Hen passes the kiss to Frog who passes it to Cat who passes it to Little Skunk until Hen decides there is too much kissing -- and finally gives the kiss to the Little Bear. Entertain Fantasy
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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148 1.6 190 Amazon
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 14 Total # of Words 302 # of Different Words 96
Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 183 60.6% # of Hi freq words 40 41.7%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 0 0% # of Low freq words 0 0%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Dialog: Two speakers
Dialog: Broken dialogue
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Multiple phrases
Text structure: Blend of written/oral
Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social
Features
Topics
Attitudes
Cats
Frogs
Friendship
Grandparents
Helping
Bears
Birds
Low Frequency Words