Title - What a Scare, Jesse Bear
Author: Carlstrom, Nancy White
Publisher: Scholastic

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
At Halloween Jesse Bear picks out a pumpkin, helps make a jack-o-lantern, works on a costume, and has fun trick-or-treating. Entertain Fantasy
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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404 2.5 610 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 24 Total # of Words 340 # of Different Words 201
Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 191 56.2% # of Hi freq words 80 39.8%
% of Long Sentences 12.1 Low Freq occurs 16 4.7% # of Low freq words 15 7.5%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues
Language: Many descriptive words
Sentences: Multiple phrases
Text structure: Story/Poem
Concept: Fanciful
Features
Topics
Feelings/Emotions
Fears
Masks
Costumes
*Feelings, Behaviors
*Holidays, Events, Cele
Halloween
Low Frequency Words
familiar frightening goblin gooey halloween neighbors ooey saggy screech stringy
truly velvet wears wobbly wrinkled