Collection Analysis Report
for Baseball Books
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 15 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.
(15 of 15 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- Sports (14 books)
- Physical Education (13 books)
- English Language Arts (8 books)
- History (6 books)
- Nonfiction (5 books)
- Realistic Fiction (5 books)
- Social Studies (4 books)
- Biography (3 books)
- Historical Fiction (2 books)
- Health (1 books)
- Picture Book (1 books)
- Poetry (1 books)
- Spanish (1 books)
Genre, Curricular, and Cultural Experience categories are assigned by TeachingBooks based on professional reviews, authoritative sources, and company guidelines.
Quantitative Measures
For 12 of 15 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: 870 (Range: 550 - 1160)
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 |
Key: Purple highlight represents average.
Source: National Governors Association for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers.[1]
Qualitative Measures (BETA)
For 4 of 15 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.
- 10 Videos
- 10 Book Readings
- 19 Lesson Plans
- Total of 153 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Adlit's "Baseball Books". 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/QLN94NU
Baseball Crazy: Ten Short Stories That Cover All the Bases
- Genres: Sports
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Physical Education
- Lexile: 820
- Year Published: 2008
Baseball in April: And Other Stories
by Gary Soto
- Grades Used: 4, 5
- Genres: Sports
- Cultural Experiences: Latino/a/e/x (Global), Latino (US / Canada)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Physical Education, Spanish, Social Studies
- Lexile: 830
- Year Published: 2000
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Moderately Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
Baseball Saved Us
by Ken Mochizuki and Dom Lee
- Grades Used: 3, 4
- Genres: Historical Fiction, Sports
- Cultural Experiences: Asian American, Asian (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Physical Education
- Lexile: 550
- Year Published: 1993
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Very Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Very Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
The Best of Baseball Digest
- Genres: Sports
- Curricular Areas: History, Physical Education
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2006
The Crazy Horse Electric Game
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: Physical Education, English Language Arts, Health, Social Studies
- Lexile: 810
- Year Published: 1987
The Girl Who Threw Butterflies
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Sports
- Cultural Experiences: Gender, Women / Girls
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 750
- Year Published: 2009
Heart of a Champion
by Carl Deuker
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Sports
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Physical Education
- Lexile: 650
- Year Published: 1993
Heat
by Mike Lupica
- Grades Used: 6, 7, 8, 9
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Sports
- Cultural Experiences: Latino/a/e/x (Global), Latino (US / Canada)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Physical Education
- Lexile: 940
- Year Published: 2006
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
The Journal of Biddy Owens, Birmingham, Alabama, 1948
- Genres: Historical Fiction, Sports
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: History, Physical Education
- Lexile: 920
- Year Published: 2001
Legends: The Best Players, Games, and Teams in Baseball
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Sports
- Curricular Areas: Physical Education
- Lexile: 1100
- Year Published: 2015
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for LegendsA Negro League Scrapbook
- Genres: Nonfiction, Sports
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: Physical Education, Social Studies
- Lexile: 1020
- Year Published: 2005
On the Field With... Albert Pujols
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Sports
- Cultural Experiences: Latino/a/e/x (Global), Latino (Latin America), Latino (US / Canada)
- Curricular Areas: History, Physical Education
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2009
Shakespeare Bats Cleanup
by Ron Koertge
- Genres: Poetry, Realistic Fiction, Sports
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2006
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
by Kadir Nelson
- Grades Used: 5
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book, Sports
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: History, Physical Education, Social Studies
- Lexile: 900
- Year Published: 2008
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Very Complex
- Conventionality: Slightly Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Moderately Complex
- Intertextuality: Moderately Complex
A Whole New Ball Game: The Story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
by Sue Macy
- Genres: Nonfiction, Sports
- Cultural Experiences: Gender, Women / Girls
- Curricular Areas: History, Physical Education
- Lexile: 1160
- Year Published: 1993
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