Collection Analysis Report
for Little House Meets Urban Sprawl
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 18 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.
(18 of 18 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- English Language Arts (16 books)
- HASH(0x563ae6d5a010) (11 books)
- Science (11 books)
- HASH(0x563ae6ddf5f0) (5 books)
- Art (4 books)
- STEAM (4 books)
- HASH(0x563ae6dd8148) (2 books)
- HASH(0x563ae6de0010) (2 books)
- History (2 books)
- Social Studies (2 books)
- HASH(0x563ae6dd7728) (1 books)
Genre, Curricular, and Cultural Experience categories are assigned by TeachingBooks based on professional reviews, authoritative sources, and company guidelines.
Quantitative Measures
For 15 of 18 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: 691 (Range: 180 - 1250)
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 |
11-12 | 1185-1385 | 11.20-14.10 | 67-74 | 10.34-14.20 | Z+ | 9.57-12.00 | 12.30-14.50 |
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 18 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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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.
- 12 Videos
- 4 Book Readings
- 31 Lesson Plans
- Total of 128 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Booklist's "Little House Meets Urban Sprawl". 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/QLU8XM7
All the Places to Love
by Patricia MacLachlan and Mike Wimmer
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: 920
- Year Published: 1994
Barn Savers
by Linda Oatman High and Ted Lewin
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History
- Lexile: 670
- Year Published: 1999
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Barn SaversThe Earth and I
by Frank Asch
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: Science, English Language Arts
- Lexile: 180
- Year Published: 1994
The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest
by Lynne Cherry
- Grades Used: 3, 4
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: 590
- Year Published: 1990
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Slightly Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
Just a Dream
- Genres: Picture Book, Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Curricular Areas: Science, English Language Arts, Art
- Lexile: 550
- Year Published: 1990
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Just a DreamKeepers of the Earth: Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children
by Michael J. Caduto and Joseph Bruchac
- Cultural Experiences: American Indian
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 880
- Year Published: 1997
The Little House
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts
- Lexile: 610
- Year Published: 1969
Maxine's Tree
by Diane C. Leger and Dar Churcher
- Genres: Picture Book, Realistic Fiction
- Curricular Areas: Science
- Lexile: 590
- Year Published: 1990
A River Ran Wild: An Environmental History
by Lynne Cherry
- Grades Used: 3, 4
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Cultural Experiences: American Indian
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, STEAM
- Lexile: 670
- Year Published: 1992
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Very Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Exceedingly Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Moderately Complex
- Intertextuality: Very Complex
River Town
by Bonnie Geisert and Arthur Geisert
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1999
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for River TownSomeday a Tree
by Eve Bunting and Ronald Himler
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: Science, English Language Arts
- Lexile: 570
- Year Published: 1993
A Street Through Time
by Steve Noon and Anne Millard
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 680
- Year Published: 1998
A Tree is Nice
by Janice May Udry and Marc Simont
- Genres: Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts, Science, STEAM
- Lexile: 420
- Year Published: 1956
Unbuilding
- Genres: Humor
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, STEAM
- Lexile: 1250
- Year Published: 1980
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for UnbuildingWhere Once There Was a Wood
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: Science, English Language Arts, Art, STEAM
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1997
Who Came Down That Road?
by George Ella Lyon and Peter Catalanotto
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 790
- Year Published: 1992
Window
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1991
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for WindowThe Wump World
by Bill Peet
- Genres: Humor, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: 1000
- Year Published: 1970
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