Collection Analysis Report
for Ezra Jack Keats Award 2015
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 7 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.
(7 of 7 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- Picture Book (7 books)
- English Language Arts (6 books)
- Biography (2 books)
- Humor (2 books)
- Nonfiction (2 books)
- Fairy Tales / Folklore (1 books)
- History (1 books)
- Music (1 books)
- Physical Education (1 books)
- Realistic Fiction (1 books)
- Science (1 books)
- Social Studies (1 books)
- Sports (1 books)
Genre, Curricular, and Cultural Experience categories are assigned by TeachingBooks based on professional reviews, authoritative sources, and company guidelines.
Quantitative Measures
For 3 of 7 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: 733 (Range: 600 - 930)
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 |
Key: Purple highlight represents average.
Source: National Governors Association for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers.[1]
Qualitative Measures (BETA)
For 3 of 7 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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- Moderately
- Very
- 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.
- 15 Videos
- 9 Book Readings
- 10 Lesson Plans
- Total of 133 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Ezra Jack Keats Foundation's "Ezra Jack Keats Award 2015". 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/QLOHE2C
A Boy and a Jaguar
by Alan Rabinowitz and Catia Chien
- Grades Used: k, 1, 2, 3, 4
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Disability
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: 670
- Year Published: 2014
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Slightly Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Slightly Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Slightly Complex
- Intertextuality: Slightly Complex
Edda: A Little Valkyrie's First Day of School
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Humor, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2014
Qualitative Measures:
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by Misty Copeland and Christopher Myers
- Grades Used: k, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- Genres: Sports, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Physical Education
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2014
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
Grandfather Gandhi
by Arun Gandhi, Bethany Hegedus, and Evan Turk
- Grades Used: 2
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: South Asian, Asian, Asian (Global)
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 600
- Year Published: 2014
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Slightly Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Slightly Complex
- Conventionality: Slightly Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Slightly Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Very Complex
- Intertextuality: Slightly Complex
Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin
by Chieri Uegaki and Qin Leng
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Asian American, Asian (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Music
- Lexile: 930
- Year Published: 2014
Little Elliot, Big City
by Mike Curato
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2014
Shh! We Have a Plan
- Genres: Humor, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2014
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