Collection Analysis Report
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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 (8 books)
- Picture Book (7 books)
- Science (5 books)
- Nonfiction (4 books)
- Poetry (4 books)
- Humor (1 books)
- STEAM (1 books)
Genre, Curricular, and Cultural Experience categories are assigned by TeachingBooks based on professional reviews, authoritative sources, and company guidelines.
Quantitative Measures
For 3 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: 793 (Range: 560 - 920)
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 |
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.
- 1 Videos
- 5 Lesson Plans
- Total of 56 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Reading Rockets's "Bugs". 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/QLN6U84
Ace Lacewing: Bug Detective
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 560
- Year Published: 2005
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Ace LacewingBeetle Bop
- Genres: Poetry, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2007
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Beetle BopEddie's Garden and How to Make Things Grow
- Genres: Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2004
Happy Bees!
by Arthur Yorinks and Carey Armstrong-Ellis
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2005
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Happy Bees!Insectlopedia
- Grades Used: 2, 3
- Genres: Humor, Nonfiction, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, STEAM
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1999
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Very Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Very Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Moderately Complex
- Intertextuality: Moderately Complex
Itsy Bitsy, the Smart Spider
- Genres: Picture Book, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2004
Miss Spider's Family Album
by David Kirk
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2005
Mosquito Bite
by Alexandra Siy and Dennis Kunkel
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: Science
- Lexile: 920
- Year Published: 2005
Spiders and Their Webs
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: Science
- Lexile: 900
- Year Published: 2004
Ten Little Sleepyheads
by Elizabeth Provost and Donald Saaf
- Genres: Poetry, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2005
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