Collection Analysis Report
for Ancient Gods and Goddesses
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 8 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.
(8 of 8 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- English Language Arts (8 books)
- Fairy Tales / Folklore (7 books)
- Humor (3 books)
- Picture Book (3 books)
- Adventure (2 books)
- Science Fiction / Fantasy (2 books)
- Social Studies (2 books)
- History (1 books)
- Nonfiction (1 books)
Genre, Curricular, and Cultural Experience categories are assigned by TeachingBooks based on professional reviews, authoritative sources, and company guidelines.
Quantitative Measures
For 5 of 8 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: 838 (Range: 510 - 1240)
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 8 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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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.
- 4 Videos
- 4 Book Readings
- 8 Lesson Plans
- Total of 73 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Reading Rockets's "Ancient Gods and Goddesses". 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/QLJQRMY
The Beautiful Stories of Life: Six Greeks Myths, Retold
by Cynthia Rylant and Carson Ellis
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2009
Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad
by Rosemary Sutcliff and Alan Lee
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 1240
- Year Published: 1993
The Chocolate Touch
by Patrick Skene Catling and Margot Apple
- Grades Used: 3, 4, 5
- Genres: Humor, Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 770
- Year Published: 1952
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Slightly Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths
by Ingri D'Aulaire and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 1070
- Year Published: 1962
The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus
by Aliki
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1994
It's All Greek to Me
by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith
- Genres: Adventure, Fairy Tales / Folklore, Humor, Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 600
- Year Published: 1999
Max and Ruby in Pandora's Box
by Rosemary Wells Rosemary Wells
Part of the Max & Ruby Series
- Grades Used: k, 1
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Humor, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 510
- Year Published: 1998
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Slightly Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Slightly Complex
- Conventionality: Slightly Complex
- Vocabulary: Slightly Complex
- Sentence Structure: Slightly Complex
- Life Experiences: Slightly Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Slightly Complex
Pandora
by Robert Burleigh and Raúl Colón
- Genres: Adventure, Fairy Tales / Folklore, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2002
Qualitative Measures:
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