Title - Bear's Bargain Author: Asch, Frank Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Bear and Little Bird try to help each other achieve impossible ambitions. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 191 1.9 380 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 21 Total # of Words 428 # of Different Words 169 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 251 58.6% # of Hi freq words 70 41.4% % of Long Sentences 2.5 Low Freq occurs 4 0.9% # of Low freq words 4 2.4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Sequence of Events: Chronological Features Simple problem/solution Simple Plot Topics Wishes *Animals Bears Birds Low Frequency Words barbells knots tying withered