Collection Analysis Report
for Our White House
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.)
- History (17 books)
- Social Studies (16 books)
- Nonfiction (14 books)
- Biography (11 books)
- Picture Book (6 books)
- English Language Arts (4 books)
- Realistic Fiction (2 books)
- Adventure (1 books)
- Horror (1 books)
- Humor (1 books)
- Mystery (1 books)
- STEAM (1 books)
- Science (1 books)
Genre, Curricular, and Cultural Experience categories are assigned by TeachingBooks based on professional reviews, authoritative sources, and company guidelines.
Quantitative Measures
For 14 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: 866 (Range: 660 - 1120)
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 1 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
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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.
- 7 Videos
- 8 Book Readings
- 8 Lesson Plans
- Total of 139 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Booklist's "Our White House". 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/QLC3WR2
A Big Cheese for the White House: The True Tale of a Tremendous Cheddar
by Candace Fleming and S.D. Schindler
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: History, Science
- Lexile: 660
- Year Published: 2004
Dolley Madison Saves George Washington
by Don Brown
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies, STEAM
- Lexile: 920
- Year Published: 2007
First Kids: The True Stories of All the Presidents' Children
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2008
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for First KidsGhosts of the White House
- Genres: Biography, Horror, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 960
- Year Published: 1998
If the Walls Could Talk: Family Life at the White House
by Jane O'Connor and Gary Hovland
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 830
- Year Published: 2004
Mr. Lincoln's Boys
by Staton Rabin and Bagram Ibatoulline
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 710
- Year Published: 2008
Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker: The Unlikely Friendship of Elizabeth Keckley and Mary Todd Lincoln
by Lynda Jones
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 960
- Year Published: 2009
Our Country's First Ladies
by Ann Bausum
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 1120
- Year Published: 2007
Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out
by Mary Brigid Barrett and National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 1110
- Year Published: 2008
So You Want to Be President?
by Judith St. George and David Small
- Grades Used: 3, 4, 5, 6
- Genres: Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 850
- Year Published: 2000
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Very Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Very Complex
- Intertextuality: Moderately Complex
Teddy Roosevelt and the Treasure of Ursa Major
by Ronald Kidd and Ard Hoyt
- Genres: Adventure, Mystery
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2008
Wackiest White House Pets
by Kathryn Gibbs Davis and David A. Johnson
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 860
- Year Published: 2004
What to Do about Alice?
by Barbara Kerley and Edwin Fotheringham
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 800
- Year Published: 2008
What Was Cooking in Dolley Madison's White House?
by Tanya Larkin
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: History
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2001
White House Autumn
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 660
- Year Published: 1985
White House Q&A
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2008
White House Rules
- Genres: Humor, Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: Asian American, Asian (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 810
- Year Published: 2008
The White House
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2006
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