Collection Analysis Report
for Explore New Genres: Poetry
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.)
- English Language Arts (10 books)
- Nonfiction (7 books)
- Poetry (7 books)
- Biography (4 books)
- Humor (2 books)
- Realistic Fiction (2 books)
- Health (1 books)
- Historical Fiction (1 books)
- Music (1 books)
- Physical Education (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 5 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: 902 (Range: 670 - 1070)
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
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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.
- 2 Videos
- 5 Book Readings
- 20 Lesson Plans
- Total of 104 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on AdLit's "Explore New Genres: Poetry". 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/QLVKAXH
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
- Grades Used: 10, 11
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: Disability, Gender, Women / Girls
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Health
- Lexile: 1050
- Year Published: 1963
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Exceedingly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems
- Genres: Humor, Nonfiction, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2007
Bronx Masquerade
by Nikki Grimes
- Grades Used: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
- Genres: Poetry, Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 670
- Year Published: 2001
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Very Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Very Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888
by Ernest Lawrence Thayer and Joe Morse
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry, Sports
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Physical Education
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2006
A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms
by Paul B. Janeczko and Chris Raschka
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2005
Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
by Rachel Fershleiser and Larry Smith
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2008
Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry: How to Write a Poem
- Genres: Humor, Nonfiction, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 870
- Year Published: 2008
The Rose That Grew from Concrete
by Tupac Shakur
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Poetry
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Music
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1999
A Voice of Her Own: Becoming Emily Dickinson
by Barbara Dana
- Genres: Biography, Historical Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 850
- Year Published: 2009
Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 1070
- Year Published: 2007
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