Title - Ask Mr. Bear Author: Flack, Marjorie Publisher: MacMillan Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre When he doesn't know what to give his mother for her birthday, a small boy asks all the animals for advice. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 180 1.8 300 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 28 Total # of Words 614 # of Different Words 124 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 333 54.2% # of Hi freq words 49 39.5% % of Long Sentences 2.4 Low Freq occurs 0 0% # of Low freq words 0 0% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Some phrases/refrains repeated Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Concept: Fanciful Features Topics Mothers Birthdays *Animals Bears Low Frequency Words