Collection Analysis Report
for Trickster Tales from Around the World
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 10 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.
(10 of 10 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- Fairy Tales / Folklore (10 books)
- English Language Arts (9 books)
- Picture Book (6 books)
- Social Studies (2 books)
- Poetry (1 books)
Genre, Curricular, and Cultural Experience categories are assigned by TeachingBooks based on professional reviews, authoritative sources, and company guidelines.
Quantitative Measures
For 8 of 10 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: 623 (Range: 470 - 1050)
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 2 of 10 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
= low and high range of submitted values = average of submitted values
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- Exceedingly
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.
- 3 Videos
- 7 Lesson Plans
- Total of 78 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Reading Rockets's "Trickster Tales from Around the World". 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/QLYB5XE
Anansi Goes Fishing
by Eric A. Kimmel and Janet Stevens
- Grades Used: 1, 2, 3
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore
- Curricular Areas: Social Studies
- Lexile: 510
- Year Published: 1992
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Exceedingly Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Slightly Complex
- Vocabulary: Slightly Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
Bruh Rabbit and the Tar Baby Girl
by Virginia Hamilton and James Ransome
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 530
- Year Published: 2003
Jump!: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
by Joel Chandler Harris and Barry Moser
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 740
- Year Published: 1997
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Jump!Please, Malese!: A Trickster Tale from Haiti
by Amy MacDonald and Emily Lisker
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Poetry, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), Latino (Latin America), Latino/a/e/x (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 570
- Year Published: 2002
A Ring of Tricksters: Animal Tales from America, the West Indies and Africa
by Virginia Hamilton and Barry Moser
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 600
Sister Tricksters: Rollicking Tales of Clever Females
by Robert D. San Souci and Daniel San Souci
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 1050
- Year Published: 2006
Sungura and Leopard: A Swahili Trickster Tale
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2007
The Tale of Rabbit and Coyote
by Tony Johnston and Tomie dePaola
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Latino/a/e/x (Global), Latino (Latin America)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 520
- Year Published: 1994
Wiley and the Hairy Man
by Judy Sierra and Brian Pinkney
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1996
Zomo the Rabbit: A Trickster Tale from West Africa
- Grades Used: 2, 3, 4, 5
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 470
- Year Published: 1992
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Very Complex
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
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