Title - Blueberries for Sal Author: McCloskey, Robert Publisher: Puffin Unicorn Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre A little girl named Sal goes to pick blueberries with her mother. On the other side of a hill, a mother bear and her cub are also eating blueberries. The two youngsters become separated from their mothers, and end up with the other's mother! Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 632 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 39 Total # of Words 1066 # of Different Words 258 Ave Word/.Sent 13 Hi Freq occurs 647 60.7% # of Hi freq words 108 41.9% % of Long Sentences 15.6 Low Freq occurs 37 3.5% # of Low freq words 18 7% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Simple Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concept: Fanciful Features Simple Plot Topics Winter Mothers Similarities Food Bears Relationships Low Frequency Words garumpf gulp hustle hustled hustling kuplank kuplink kuplunk mouthful munching nowhere partridge surely swallow swallowing tramped tramping tremendous