Title - The Biggest Bear
Author: Ward, Lynd
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
Johnny Orchard sets out to kill a big bear and insteads befriends and brings home a playful bear cub that soon becomes huge and a nuisance to the neighbors. Entertain Adventure
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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530 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 32 Total # of Words 955 # of Different Words 319
Ave Word/.Sent 12 Hi Freq occurs 645 67.5% # of Hi freq words 134 42%
% of Long Sentences 18.7 Low Freq occurs 36 3.8% # of Low freq words 26 8.2%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Dialog: Simple
Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Some Long/Complex
Text structure: Story/Poem
Inferences: Some implications
Concept: Fanciful
Features
Simple Plot
Topics
Size
Zoos
Growth/Growing
Searching/Hunting
*Animals
Habitat
Bears
Pets
Relationships
Low Frequency Words
calves emptied farthest gull's humiliated humiliating lumber maple mccarroll nailed
orchard orchard's overgrown pennell pennell's prisoners raspberries rowed shelves smokehouse
syrup timber trial tribulation watson's whiff