Collection Analysis Report
for Artists, Musicians and Authors
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 19 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.
(19 of 19 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- English Language Arts (13 books)
- Nonfiction (12 books)
- Picture Book (12 books)
- Biography (11 books)
- Art (6 books)
- History (6 books)
- Music (6 books)
- STEAM (2 books)
- Social Studies (2 books)
- Health (1 books)
- Holiday (1 books)
- Physical Education (1 books)
- Realistic Fiction (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 12 of 19 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: 746 (Range: 260 - 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 19 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
- 5 Book Readings
- 9 Lesson Plans
- Total of 109 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Booklist's "Artists, Musicians and Authors". 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/QLE3IUM
An Alcott Family Christmas
- Genres: Holiday, Realistic Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2008
Artist in Overalls: The Life of Grant Wood
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: Art, STEAM
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1995
Bach's Big Adventure
by Sallie Ketcham and Timothy Bush
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: Music
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1999
Beatrix Potter
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History
- Lexile: 830
- Year Published: 1995
A Blue Butterfly
by Bijou LeTord
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts
- Lexile: 600
- Year Published: 1995
Charlie Parker Played Be Bop
- Grades Used: k, 1, 2
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Music
- Lexile: 260
- Year Published: 1992
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Slightly Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Very Complex
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Slightly Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Very Complex
- Intertextuality: Very Complex
Cowboy Charlie: The Story of Charles M. Russell
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: Art
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1995
Emily
by Michael Bedard and Barbara Cooney
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 580
- Year Published: 1992
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for EmilyIf I Only Had a Horn: Young Louis Armstrong
by Roxane Orgill and Leonard Jenkins
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: History, Music
- Lexile: 860
- Year Published: 1997
Li'l Sis & Uncle Willie
by Gwen Everett and William H. Johnson
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: Art, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1992
Linnea in Monet's Garden
by Christina Bjork and Lena Anderson
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts
- Lexile: 710
- Year Published: 1985
Lives of the Writers: Comedies, Tragedies (and What the Neighbors Thought)
by Kathleen Krull and Kathryn Hewitt Kathleen Krull and Kathryn Hewitt
Part of the Lives of ... Series
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History
- Lexile: 1070
- Year Published: 1994
Marie in Fourth Position
by Amy Littlesugar and Ian Schoenherr
- Genres: Sports, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Physical Education
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1996
Mysterious Thelonious
- Grades Used: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
- Genres: Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Music
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1997
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Exceedingly Complex
- Conventionality: Slightly Complex
- Vocabulary: Slightly Complex
- Sentence Structure: Slightly Complex
- Life Experiences: Exceedingly Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Exceedingly Complex
Richard Wright and the Library Card
by William Miller and R. Gregory Christie
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Health, Social Studies
- Lexile: 700
- Year Published: 1999
Sebastian: A Book about Bach
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Music, History
- Lexile: 670
- Year Published: 1999
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for SebastianStory Painter: The Life of Jacob Lawrence
by John Duggleby and Jacob Lawrence
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: Art, STEAM
- Lexile: 950
- Year Published: 1998
Sweet Words So Brave: The Story of African American Literature
by Barbara K. Curry, James Michael Brodie, and Jerry Butler
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History
- Lexile: 850
- Year Published: 1996
Tchaikovsky Discovers America
by Esther Kalman, Rick Jacobson, and Laura Fernandez
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Music
- Lexile: 880
- Year Published: 1994
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