Title - Barry and Bennie
Author: Medearis, Angela Shelf
Publisher: Celebration Press

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
Can Barry (a bear) and Bennie (a bat) share a cave? Entertain Concept
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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151 1.6 190
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 11 Total # of Words 250 # of Different Words 113
Ave Word/.Sent 5 Hi Freq occurs 135 54% # of Hi freq words 51 45.1%
% of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 1 0.4% # of Low freq words 1 0.9%
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
Features
Topics
Sharing
Bats
*Animals
Caves
Bears
Low Frequency Words
stung