| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| A simple explanation of what bears look like, how they hunt, what they eat, how they sleep during the winter, and how their cubs are born and raised. |
Inform |
Informational |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 381 |
2.4 |
600 |
Amazon
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| RDQ based on a maximum of 3000 words |
Levels are suggested levels based on RDQ, not official levels |
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| Sentences |
Total Words |
Different Words |
| Max Word/Sent |
30 |
Total # of Words |
1283 |
# of Different Words |
432 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
7 |
Hi Freq occurs |
809 |
63.1% |
# of Hi freq words |
168 |
38.9% |
| % of Long Sentences |
2.3 |
Low Freq occurs |
23 |
1.8% |
# of Low freq words |
16 |
3.7% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Few descriptive words |
| Sentences: Simple phrases |
| Text structure: Blend of written/oral |
| Chapters |
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| Topics |
| *Animals |
| Animals: Forest |
| Habitat |
| *Animal Life |
| Bears |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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charging |
grizzly |
heartbeat |
helpless |
hibernate |
hollow |
lightly |
shaggy |
shuffle |
slurp |
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startle |
temperatures |
termites |
toasty |
walruses |
yardstick |
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