Collection Analysis Report
for Power of Poetry
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 (17 books)
- Poetry (16 books)
- Nonfiction (13 books)
- Picture Book (6 books)
- Art (3 books)
- Spanish (3 books)
- Realistic Fiction (2 books)
- Science (2 books)
- Biography (1 books)
- Fairy Tales / Folklore (1 books)
- Social Studies (1 books)
Genre, Curricular, and Cultural Experience categories are assigned by TeachingBooks based on professional reviews, authoritative sources, and company guidelines.
Quantitative Measures
For 4 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: 970 (Range: 860 - 1150)
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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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.
- 14 Videos
- 6 Book Readings
- 31 Lesson Plans
- Total of 317 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Booklist's "Power of Poetry". 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/QLTTDVN
Aneesa Lee and the Weaver's Gift
by Nikki Grimes and Ashley Bryan
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1999
At Break of Day
by Nikki Grimes and Paul Morin
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1999
Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea
by Joyce Carol Thomas and Floyd Cooper
- Genres: Nonfiction, Picture Book, Poetry
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: Art
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1993
C is for City
by Nikki Grimes and Pat Cummings
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 1150
- Year Published: 1995
Come Sunday
by Nikki Grimes and Michael Bryant
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 960
- Year Published: 1996
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Come SundayConfetti: Poems for Children
by Pat Mora and Enrique O. Sanchez
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
- Cultural Experiences: Latino/a/e/x (Global), Latino (US / Canada)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Spanish
- Lexile: 860
- Year Published: 1999
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for ConfettiA Dime a Dozen
by Nikki Grimes and Angelo
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1998
A Fire in My Hands
by Gary Soto
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Poetry
- Cultural Experiences: Latino/a/e/x (Global), Latino (US / Canada)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Spanish
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1992
Hopscotch Love: A Family Treasury of Love Poems
by Nikki Grimes and Melodye Rosales
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1999
Is It Far to Zanzibar?: Poems about Tanzania
by Nikki Grimes and Betsy Lewin
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2000
It's Raining Laughter
by Nikki Grimes and Myles C. Pinkney
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1997
Jazmin's Notebook
by Nikki Grimes
- Grades Used: 5
- Genres: Poetry, Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 910
- Year Published: 1998
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Exceedingly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Very Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
Meet Danitra Brown
by Nikki Grimes and Floyd Cooper
- Grades Used: 3
- Genres: Poetry, Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1984
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Slightly Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Slightly Complex
My Man Blue: Poems
by Nikki Grimes and Jerome Lagarrigue
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American, Gender, Men / Boys
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1999
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for My Man BlueNeighborhood Odes
by Gary Soto and David Diaz
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
- Cultural Experiences: Latino/a/e/x (Global), Latino (US / Canada)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Spanish
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1994
Sing to the Sun: Poems and Pictures
by Ashley Bryan
- Genres: Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1996
A Suitcase of Seaweed and Other Poems
- Genres: Picture Book, Poetry
- Cultural Experiences: Asian American, Asian (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1996
This Big Sky
by Pat Mora and Steve Jenkins
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1998
Qualitative Measures:
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