Collection Analysis Report
for Blankies and Other Favorite Things
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 10 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.
(10 of 10 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- English Language Arts (10 books)
- Picture Book (10 books)
- Realistic Fiction (7 books)
- Health (2 books)
- Social Studies (2 books)
- Art (1 books)
- Humor (1 books)
Genre, Curricular, and Cultural Experience categories are assigned by TeachingBooks based on professional reviews, authoritative sources, and company guidelines.
Quantitative Measures
For 7 of 10 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: 450 (Range: 310 - 560)
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 |
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 10 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.
- 20 Videos
- 11 Book Readings
- 20 Lesson Plans
- Total of 103 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Reading Rockets's "Blankies and Other Favorite Things". 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/QLZKMBO
Alfie Gives a Hand
by Shirley Hughes Shirley Hughes
Part of the Alfie Series
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2009
D.W.'s Lost Blankie
by Marc Brown
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 490
- Year Published: 1998
Flora's Blanket
by Debi Gliori
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 310
- Year Published: 2001
Geraldine's Blanket
by Holly Keller
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Health
- Lexile: 360
- Year Published: 1984
Jamaica's Find
by Juanita Havill and Anne Sibley O'Brien
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 460
- Year Published: 1986
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale
by Mo Willems
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts
- Lexile: 460
- Year Published: 2004
The Name Quilt
by Phyllis Root and Margot Apple
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2003
Owen
by Kevin Henkes
- Grades Used: pk, k, 1, 2
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Health
- Lexile: 510
- Year Published: 1993
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Slightly Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Moderately Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Slightly Complex
The Red Woolen Blanket
by Bob Graham
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1996
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
by Mem Fox and Julie Vivas
- Genres: Humor, Picture Book, Realistic Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 560
- Year Published: 1984
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