Title - Big Bad Bruce Author: Peet, Bill Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Bruce, a bear bully, never picks on anyone his own size until he is diminished in more ways than one by a small but very independent witch. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1508 4.3 830 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 46 Total # of Words 1899 # of Different Words 661 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 1277 67.2% # of Hi freq words 235 35.6% % of Long Sentences 23.8 Low Freq occurs 151 8% # of Low freq words 124 18.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Concept: Fanciful Features Character traits Character development Simple Plot Topics Witches Teasing Bears Low Frequency Words amazement aroma aspens awakened bedraggled belittling blumpity blurps boulder boulders brute chortled current desperation diminishing dwindled dwindling echoed fellow flumpity flung forevergreen frantic frantically frowsy fury gape gopher gradually grrrowf har hatched haunches headlong heave hoping instant jittery jumbles kapoot kerplump kersploosh kindly kittycat klinker lantern laughter lightly liking limb lumbered lummox magical measure mell memories minikin muttered ole opposite outrunning pace panic peaceful peering pell possum prowl raucous reared recipes recognized rippled roxy roxy's runt scruff scrunched scurried shaggy shortening shrift shrink shrinking shriveling shrunk slinky slurp smidgeon smithereens snatched snooting snuffling snurf splinters sprawled squashed streaking swept swirl swirling tangles teaspoon terrified thicket thrashing tidbit trice trickery trizzle twurp underbrush vicious wandering warned weary wheeled wheezing whipped whisker whump whumpity wiffle yawn