Title - Gentle Ben Author: Morey, Walt Publisher: Penguin Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The Alaskan wilderness is a lonely place for Mark Andersen, especially after the death of his brother. But Mark finds a friend named Ben, who happens to be an Alaskan brown bear. Ben and Mark form a special bond, but the townspeople are determined to destroy it. Entertain Adventure RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1777 4.7 870 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 42 Total # of Words 3828 # of Different Words 1133 Ave Word/.Sent 13 Hi Freq occurs 2821 73.7% # of Hi freq words 494 43.6% % of Long Sentences 20.7 Low Freq occurs 222 5.8% # of Low freq words 177 15.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Captions Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Chapters Features Character traits Integral Setting Clear cause/effect Simple Plot Topics *Animals *Family & Friends Bears Pets Low Frequency Words aboard accustomed acres aleutian amble ample anchor anchors announce annual anxiously apparent approaching aroma arousing awaited awaiting blocky bulging bureau chained charged clearwater'll closeness colossal companionship concentrating congregate crouched deference deftly delicate devotion dewy disliked displeased dreamily drenched dutifully eastern eaves ecstasy enviously experimentally exploring fashion fastened feverish feverishly fisheries fistful flanked forepaws glance gnawed grunted guiltily gulls hardy harshness harvest hastily herds honest hordes horizon idly indefinite inhabitants interior islands judging jutting laughingly lengthened lighter lingered locations lowlands merely mexican momentarily moored morsel motor motors movements murmured muscle musty naturally neglected northern nostrils occasional officially orca outreaching overhauling painfully patched patches patterned paused payment pilings poised positive practically previous protective pure quarrelsome querulous ragged rarity razor reared reflected retied richards ridges rippling rough roused ruffled rustle salmon sampled sandbar satisfaction satisfied scarcely schoolbooks scouring season seaworthy seine seiner seiners seining sinuously sloping smacking spawn spawning sprinter squared squinted startled stillness stirred stomachs stubby suggesting supper's surrounded surrounding sweater taylor temporarily towed toying transferred tremendous tulip tuna tundra unaccustomed upsetting upstream vague vie watchman watchmen waterfront wistful yawning