Title - Somebody and the Three Blairs
Author: Tolhurst, Marilyn
Publisher: Orchard Books

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
In a reversal of the Goldilocks story, a bear explores the home of the three Blairs while they are out Entertain Fairy Tales
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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185 1.8 340 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 24 Total # of Words 404 # of Different Words 136
Ave Word/.Sent 6 Hi Freq occurs 205 50.7% # of Hi freq words 45 33.1%
% of Long Sentences 3 Low Freq occurs 10 2.5% # of Low freq words 8 5.9%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Dialog: Multiple speakers
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Simple phrases
Text structure: Blend of written/oral
Features
Retelling of story/fable/legend
Parody
Topics
Behaviors
Bears
Low Frequency Words
burglar crispies crunchies escaped iss naughty raiding wobbly