Title - The Berenstain Bears Trick or Treat Author: Berenstain, Stan and Jan Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre As Brother and Sister Bear don their costumes to go trick-or-treating by themselves for the first time, they plan to avoid Miz McGrizz's spooky home. But during their Halloween outing, the cubs discover that appearances can be deceiving. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 595 2.9 660 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 31 Total # of Words 1110 # of Different Words 457 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 691 62.3% # of Hi freq words 176 38.5% % of Long Sentences 9.2 Low Freq occurs 66 5.9% # of Low freq words 45 9.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Simple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Features Simple Plot Topics Appearances Tricks Costumes *Entertainment & Fun *Holidays, Events, Cele Halloween Low Frequency Words ablaze assure cawed challenge collected deceiving delicious doubt encourage forbidding formations frightening gnarled gonna gravelly grizzle grizzly groceries halloween knots lantern mcbear mcgrizz mischief miz neighborhood noisily ourselves puss queenie queenie's route season shrubs sitter's spookiest stubble supervise surest terrified thicket utter warily whyever worrisome