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