Collection Analysis Report
for Arab Children's Literature
This report provides data analyses into the titles on this list to help support your efforts to put the right book in each reader's hands.
This report is organized by Collection Analysis by Genre, Cultural, and Curricular Areas, Quantitative Measures, and Qualitative Measures.
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Collection Analysis by Genre, Cultural, and Curricular Areas
For the 18 books on this list, please find an analysis revealing the quantity of titles associated with genre, cultural, and curriculum classifications. Additionally, please find the "Not Represented" section where you can click to identify other titles to potentially add to this list.
We hope this collection analysis tool helps you achieve the variety and differentiation of books that you want for your reading opportunities.
(18 of 18 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- English Language Arts (15 books)
- Social Studies (10 books)
- Nonfiction (8 books)
- Picture Book (7 books)
- Realistic Fiction (4 books)
- Biography (3 books)
- Fairy Tales / Folklore (3 books)
- Adventure (2 books)
- Historical Fiction (2 books)
- History (2 books)
- Art (1 books)
- Graphic Novel (1 books)
- Holiday (1 books)
- Poetry (1 books)
- STEAM (1 books)
- Science Fiction / Fantasy (1 books)
Genre, Curricular, and Cultural Experience categories are assigned by TeachingBooks based on professional reviews, authoritative sources, and company guidelines.
Quantitative Measures
For 17 of 18 titles that have known Lexile levels, below is the low, high, and average Lexile® for the books in this list. We hope these data points, along with the crosswalk to other measures, provide insights into the variety and differentiation of this collection.
Lexile® Average: 792 (Range: 540 - 1340)
Reading Level and Grade Band Crosswalk
Grade Band | Lexile® | ATOS | Degrees of Reading Power® | Flesch-Kincaid | Fountas & Pinnell | Reading Maturity | SourceRater |
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2-3 | 420-820 | 2.75-5.14 | 42-54 | 1.98-5.34 | I-P | 3.53-613 | 0.05-2.48 |
4-5 | 740-1010 | 4.97-7.03 | 52-60 | 4.51-7.72 | O-V | 5.42-7.92 | 0.84-5.75 |
6-8 | 925-1185 | 7.00-9.98 | 57-67 | 6.51-10.34 | U-Z | 7.04-9.57 | 4.11-10.66 |
9-10 | 1050-1335 | 9.67-12.01 | 62-72 | 8.32-12.12 | Z+ | 8.41-10.81 | 9.02-13.93 |
11-12 | 1185-1385 | 11.20-14.10 | 67-74 | 10.34-14.20 | Z+ | 9.57-12.00 | 12.30-14.50 |
Key: Purple highlight represents average.
Source: National Governors Association for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers.[1]
Qualitative Measures (BETA)
For 2 of 18 titles that have known qualitative measurements, this graph reveals the aggregated low, high, and average qualitative measures for the books in this list. We hope this range of information shows the variety and differentiation of this collection.
Qualitative Text Complexity Ranges
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Qualitative measures for each title are determined by crowd sourced results from professional educators who complete the literary or informational text complexity rubrics. These are relatively new on TeachingBooks so only a small percentage of all the titles have currently been evaluated. Perhaps you can help?
Instructional Materials Summary
Below please find a summary of available multimedia texts and instructional materials that enrich and deepen the discussion of the titles on this list.
- 5 Videos
- 5 Book Readings
- 11 Lesson Plans
- Total of 167 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Book Links's "Arab Children's Literature". If you wish to see the curricular areas, genres, Lexile® and Qualitative measures, along with the collection of ready-to-use instructional materials, go online to TeachingBooks at: https://school.teachingbooks.net/QL8N4XF
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
- Cultural Experiences: Immigrant / Refugee, Middle Eastern
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 910
- Year Published: 2002
Alia's Mission: Saving the Books of Iraq
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Graphic Novel, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Middle Eastern, Muslim
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 850
- Year Published: 2004
Celebrating Ramadan
by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith and Lawrence Migdale
- Genres: Holiday, Nonfiction
- Cultural Experiences: Muslim
- Curricular Areas: Social Studies
- Lexile: 1000
- Year Published: 2001
The Day of Ahmed's Secret
by Florence Parry Heide, Ted Lewin, and Judith Heide Gilliland
- Genres: Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Middle Eastern, African (Global), African
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 610
- Year Published: 1990
Goha the Wise Fool
by Denys Johnson-Davies, Hag Hamdy, and Mohamed Fattouh
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 860
- Year Published: 2005
The Golden Sandal: A Middle Eastern Cinderella Story
by Rebecca Hickox and Will Hillenbrand
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Middle Eastern
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 870
- Year Published: 1998
Habibi
- Grades Used: 7
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: Immigrant / Refugee, Middle Eastern
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 850
- Year Published: 1997
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Slightly Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
Mosque
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Cultural Experiences: Middle Eastern, Muslim
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts, STEAM
- Lexile: 1340
- Year Published: 2003
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for MosqueMuhammad
by Demi
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Middle Eastern, Muslim
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2003
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for MuhammadMy Name Is Bilal
by Asma Mobin-Uddin and Barbara Kiwak
- Genres: Picture Book, Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: Muslim
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 570
- Year Published: 2005
Sami and the Time of the Troubles
by Florence Parry Heide, Judith Heide Gilliland, and Ted Lewin
- Genres: Historical Fiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Middle Eastern
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 600
- Year Published: 1992
Samir and Yonatan
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: Jewish, Middle Eastern
- Curricular Areas: Social Studies
- Lexile: 810
- Year Published: 2000
Season of the Sandstorms
by Mary Pope Osborne and Salvatore Murdocca Mary Pope Osborne and Salvatore Murdocca
Book 6 of the Magic Tree House: Merlin Missions Series
- Grades Used: 2, 3
- Genres: Adventure, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 580
- Year Published: 2005
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Slightly Complex
- Life Experiences: Moderately Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
The Shadows of Ghadames
by Joelle Stolz
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), Gender, Muslim, Women / Girls, African
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 920
- Year Published: 2006
Sitti's Secrets
by Naomi Shihab Nye and Nancy Carpenter
- Cultural Experiences: Middle Eastern
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 650
- Year Published: 1994
A Stone in My Hand
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: Middle Eastern, Muslim
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 540
- Year Published: 2010
The Three Princes: A Tale from the Middle East
by Eric A. Kimmel and Leonard Everett Fisher
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Nonfiction
- Cultural Experiences: Middle Eastern
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 770
- Year Published: 1994
Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354
- Genres: Adventure, Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), Muslim, African
- Curricular Areas: History
- Lexile: 740
- Year Published: 2001
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