Collection Analysis Report
for Zolotow Award 2014
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 13 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.
(13 of 13 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- English Language Arts (13 books)
- Picture Book (12 books)
- Realistic Fiction (5 books)
- History (2 books)
- Science (2 books)
- Social Studies (2 books)
- Art (1 books)
- Beginning / Early Reader (1 books)
- Historical Fiction (1 books)
- Holiday (1 books)
- Humor (1 books)
- Physical Education (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 13 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: 522 (Range: 130 - 790)
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 |
Key: Purple highlight represents average.
Source: National Governors Association for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers.[1]
Qualitative Measures (BETA)
For 5 of 13 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.
- 29 Videos
- 18 Book Readings
- 23 Lesson Plans
- Total of 239 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)'s "Zolotow Award 2014". 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/QLWWDV3
Big Snow
- Genres: Holiday, Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 470
- Year Published: 2013
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Big SnowBuilding Our House
- Grades Used: k, 1
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: 640
- Year Published: 2013
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Slightly Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Very Complex
- Conventionality: Slightly Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Moderately Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Slightly Complex
The Dark
by Lemony Snicket and Jon Klassen
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 540
- Year Published: 2013
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for The DarkMax and the Tag-Along Moon
by Floyd Cooper
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 550
- Year Published: 2013
My Blue Is Happy
by Jessica Young and Catia Chien
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 520
- Year Published: 2013
My Cold Plum Lemon Pie Bluesy Mood
by Tameka Fryer Brown and Shane W. Evans
- Genres: Picture Book, Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2013
Niño Wrestles the World
by Yuyi Morales
- Grades Used: k, 1, 2, 3
- Genres: Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Latino/a/e/x (Global), Latino (US / Canada)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Physical Education, Spanish
- Lexile: 420
- Year Published: 2015
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Slightly Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Moderately Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
The Silver Button
by Bob Graham
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 660
- Year Published: 2013
Sophie's Squash
by Pat Zietlow Miller and Anne Wilsdorf
- Grades Used: pk, k, 1, 2, 3, 4
- Genres: Humor, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 550
- Year Published: 2013
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Very Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Slightly Complex
Stripes of All Types
- Grades Used: pk, k, 1
- Genres: Beginning / Early Reader, Picture Book, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: 130
- Year Published: 2013
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Slightly Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Slightly Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Slightly Complex
- Life Experiences: Moderately Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Slightly Complex
This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration
by Jacqueline Woodson and James Ransome
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 790
- Year Published: 2013
When No One Is Watching
by Eileen Spinelli and David A. Johnson
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 440
- Year Published: 2013
Year of the Jungle
by Suzanne Collins and James Proimos
- Grades Used: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- Genres: Historical Fiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 560
- Year Published: 2013
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Slightly Complex
- Sentence Structure: Slightly Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
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