Collection Analysis Report
for Arab World and Arab Americans
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 22 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.
(22 of 22 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- English Language Arts (21 books)
- Picture Book (12 books)
- Fairy Tales / Folklore (10 books)
- Social Studies (8 books)
- Nonfiction (6 books)
- History (2 books)
- Holiday (2 books)
- Realistic Fiction (2 books)
- Adventure (1 books)
- Biography (1 books)
- Historical Fiction (1 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 17 of 22 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: 807 (Range: 600 - 960)
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 1 of 22 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.
- 6 Videos
- 3 Book Readings
- 8 Lesson Plans
- Total of 147 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Booklist's "Arab World and Arab Americans". 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/QLUVUD9
The Contest
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Asian, Asian (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1976
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for The ContestThe Day of Ahmed's Secret
by Florence Parry Heide, Ted Lewin, and Judith Heide Gilliland
- Genres: Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Middle Eastern, African (Global), African
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 610
- Year Published: 1990
The Egyptian Cinderella
by Shirley Climo and Ruth Heller
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Middle Eastern
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 810
- Year Published: 1989
Gift of the Nile: An Ancient Egyptian Legend
by Jan M. Mike and Charles Reasoner
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 890
- Year Published: 1992
Goha the Wise Fool
by Denys Johnson-Davies, Hag Hamdy, and Mohamed Fattouh
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 860
- Year Published: 2005
The Golden Bracelet
by David Kherdian and Nonny Hogrogian
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Asian, Asian (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 960
- Year Published: 1998
The Golden Sandal: A Middle Eastern Cinderella Story
by Rebecca Hickox and Will Hillenbrand
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Middle Eastern
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 870
- Year Published: 1998
Habibi
- Grades Used: 7
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: Immigrant / Refugee, Middle Eastern
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 850
- Year Published: 1997
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Slightly Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
The House of Wisdom
by Florence Parry Heide, Judith Heide Gilliland, and Mary GrandPre
- Genres: Adventure, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Middle Eastern
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 910
- Year Published: 1999
Kiss the Dust
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: Middle Eastern, Immigrant / Refugee
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 850
- Year Published: 1991
Magid Fasts for Ramadan
by Mary Matthews and E.B. Lewis
- Genres: Holiday, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Muslim
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2000
Peace Tales: World Folktales to Talk about
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 690
- Year Published: 1992
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Peace TalesRamadan
by Suhaib Hamid Ghazi and Omar Rayyan
- Genres: Holiday, Nonfiction
- Cultural Experiences: Muslim
- Curricular Areas: Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1996
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for RamadanThe Sabbath Lion: A Jewish Folktale from Algeria
by Howard Schwartz and Barbara Rush
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Jewish, Middle Eastern
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 790
- Year Published: 1996
Sami and the Time of the Troubles
by Florence Parry Heide, Judith Heide Gilliland, and Ted Lewin
- Genres: Historical Fiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Middle Eastern
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 600
- Year Published: 1992
Sitti's Secrets
by Naomi Shihab Nye and Nancy Carpenter
- Cultural Experiences: Middle Eastern
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 650
- Year Published: 1994
The Space Between Our Footsteps
- Genres: Poetry
- Cultural Experiences: Middle Eastern, African (Global), African
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1998
The Storytellers
by Ted Lewin
- Genres: Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 930
- Year Published: 1998
The Three Princes: A Tale from the Middle East
by Eric A. Kimmel and Leonard Everett Fisher
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Nonfiction
- Cultural Experiences: Middle Eastern
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 770
- Year Published: 1994
Tutankhamen's Gift
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Middle Eastern
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 910
- Year Published: 1994
A Weave of Words
by Robert D. San Souci and Raúl Colón
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 780
- Year Published: 1998
What Do We Know About Islam?
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Cultural Experiences: Muslim, Asian (Global), South Asian
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1990
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