Title - Accept No Substitutes Author: Berenstain, Stan and Jan Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Brother Bear heads for trouble when he torments the substitute teacher at school. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 657 3.0 670 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 27 Total # of Words 1737 # of Different Words 512 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 1157 66.6% # of Hi freq words 219 42.8% % of Long Sentences 0.4 Low Freq occurs 60 3.5% # of Low freq words 38 7.4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Chapters Features Integral Setting Simple Plot Topics Teacher/Teaching Teasing Bullies Tricking *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors *Schools & Education Low Frequency Words airways breakin cough coughs gonna grizzly grizzmeyer groaning headband honeymoon honors lining movin' nah nothin operation opposite schoolyard science skies skuzz smirk snarled snickering substitute tall's tongues tortures unfolding unfriendly urge waitin wandered warmup what'll what're wrist yourselves