Title - The Berenstain Bears and the Galloping Ghost Author: Berenstain, Stan and Jan Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Both Brother Bear's fear of horses and Sister Bear's fear of ghosts need to be overcome when Miss Maud's Riding Academy, where they are taking riding lessons, turns out to be haunted. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 526 2.8 640 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 27 Total # of Words 729 # of Different Words 328 Ave Word/.Sent 8 Hi Freq occurs 387 53.1% # of Hi freq words 121 36.9% % of Long Sentences 7.8 Low Freq occurs 42 5.8% # of Low freq words 28 8.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Concept: Fanciful Features Simple problem/solution Simple Plot Topics Mystery Accidents *Animals Horses Bears Low Frequency Words abed academy adventures detective foolin goodbear grizzlock grizzlyteague haunted hauntings holmes horseman librarian mysteries nah nightmares peered propped ridden scaredy scarier scaring servants slithering speckled stocking storybooks younger