Title - The Berenstain Bears and the School Scandal Sheet Author: Berenstain, Stan and Jan Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Frustrated by their lack of artistic freedom on the staff of the school newspaper, Brother Bear and his friends start an underground paper and discover some basic truths about freedom of the press and responsibility. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 983 3.6 740 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 36 Total # of Words 2853 # of Different Words 740 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 1998 70% # of Hi freq words 318 43% % of Long Sentences 9.2 Low Freq occurs 156 5.5% # of Low freq words 91 12.3% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Chapters Features Simple Plot Topics Teacher/Teaching Writing Freedom *Careers Journalism *Language Arts *Schools & Education School Low Frequency Words activities actual addition announced breathed carpentry chaos column decisions editor editorials emetic employees eyed factual fastbreaking ferdy freedom gazette glitch glitch's glitchville gonna gossip gotta griping grizzly hardhitting heroes hunh icky iffy improve improvement instructed investigative issue jealous journalism lobby mcbear mcgill molecule nerds nerdy offy ought panicking paper's particle poem poems poetic poetry publish published publishing pursuit queenie queenie's reasons results rhyme rhymes roving sayings science scientist section shrugged sneered stimulates stunned succeeding suggest surely survey sweetness tainted terrific theory trivial troublemaker unfortunately upcoming wimpy wisdom wrinkled writer yahoo yugh