Collection Analysis Report
for Picture-Perfect Geography
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.)
- Science (11 books)
- English Language Arts (10 books)
- Nonfiction (10 books)
- Picture Book (10 books)
- Social Studies (10 books)
- Realistic Fiction (5 books)
- STEAM (4 books)
- Biography (2 books)
- Math (2 books)
- Adventure (1 books)
- History (1 books)
- Poetry (1 books)
- Spanish (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 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: 665 (Range: 220 - 1160)
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 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.
- 4 Videos
- 1 Book Readings
- 7 Lesson Plans
- Total of 102 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Booklist's "Picture-Perfect Geography". 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/qlSGPEB
As the Crow Flies: A First Book of Maps
by Gail Hartman and Harvey Stevenson
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: Science
- Lexile: 440
- Year Published: 1993
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Very Complex
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Very Complex
- Intertextuality: Exceedingly Complex
Blast Off to Earth!: A Look at Geography
by Loreen Leedy
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies, STEAM
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1992
Children Just Like Me: In Association with United Nations Children's Fund
by Barnabas Kindersley and Anabel Kindersley
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1995
The Coast Mappers
- Genres: Adventure, Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: Science
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2004
From Here to There
by Margery Cuyler and Yu Cha Pak
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Latino/a/e/x (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science, Spanish
- Lexile: 220
- Year Published: 1999
Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest
- Grades Used: 3, 4, 5
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: Science, STEAM
- Lexile: 1000
- Year Published: 1998
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Slightly Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Very Complex
- Conventionality: Slightly Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Very Complex
- Intertextuality: Moderately Complex
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
by Kathryn Lasky and Kevin Hawkes
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: Math, Science
- Lexile: 940
- Year Published: 1994
Mapping Penny's World
by Loreen Leedy
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Math
- Lexile: 640
- Year Published: 2000
Mapping the World
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: History, Science, Social Studies, STEAM
- Lexile: 1160
- Year Published: 1999
Maps and Globes
by Jack Knowlton and Harriett Barton
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: Science
- Lexile: 920
- Year Published: 1985
Me on the Map
by Joan Sweeney and Annette Cable
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: Science, Social Studies
- Lexile: 280
- Year Published: 1996
My Map Book
by Sara Fanelli
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1995
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for My Map BookNine O'Clock Lullaby
by Marilyn Singer and Frané Lessac
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: Science, Social Studies
- Lexile: 590
- Year Published: 1993
On the Town: A Community Adventure
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 560
- Year Published: 2002
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for On the TownOur Earth
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: Science, English Language Arts, STEAM
- Lexile: 580
- Year Published: 1998
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Our EarthSomewhere in the World Right Now
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies
- Lexile: 650
- Year Published: 1995
Wake Up, World!
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1999
A World of Wonders: Geographic Travels in Verse and Rhyme
by J. Patrick Lewis and Alison Jay
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2002
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