Collection Analysis Report
for Celebrate America
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 14 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.
(14 of 14 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- English Language Arts (12 books)
- Picture Book (11 books)
- Social Studies (8 books)
- Holiday (6 books)
- Nonfiction (6 books)
- History (4 books)
- Biography (2 books)
- Music (2 books)
- Fairy Tales / Folklore (1 books)
- Historical Fiction (1 books)
- Humor (1 books)
- Physical Education (1 books)
- Poetry (1 books)
- Realistic Fiction (1 books)
- Sports (1 books)
Genre, Curricular, and Cultural Experience categories are assigned by TeachingBooks based on professional reviews, authoritative sources, and company guidelines.
Quantitative Measures
For 8 of 14 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: 691 (Range: 340 - 950)
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 |
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 14 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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- Moderately
- Very
- Exceedingly
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.
- 9 Videos
- 10 Book Readings
- 12 Lesson Plans
- Total of 126 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Reading Rockets's "Celebrate America". 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/QLF3EM9
Apple Pie 4th of July
by Janet S. Wong and Margaret Chodos-Irvine
- Genres: Holiday, Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Asian American, Asian (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 730
- Year Published: 2002
Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888
by Ernest Lawrence Thayer and Christopher Bing
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry, Sports, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Physical Education
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2000
The Flag We Love
by Pam Muñoz Ryan and Ralph Masiello
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2000
God Bless America
by Irving Berlin and Lynn M. Munsinger
- Genres: Holiday, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: Music, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2002
Happy Birthday, America
by Mary Pope Osborne and Peter Catalanotto
- Genres: Holiday, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2003
Hats Off for the Fourth of July
- Genres: Holiday, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 340
- Year Published: 2000
Hurray for the Fourth of July
by Wendy Watson
- Genres: Holiday, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 420
- Year Published: 2000
John, Paul, George & Ben
by Lane Smith
- Genres: Historical Fiction, Humor, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 660
- Year Published: 2006
Red, White, and Boom!
by Lee Wardlaw and Huy Voun Lee
- Genres: Holiday, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2012
Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 820
- Year Published: 1995
Shh! We're Writing the Constitution
by Jean Fritz and Tomie dePaola
- Grades Used: 4, 5
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History
- Lexile: 950
- Year Published: 1987
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Slightly Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Slightly Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Very Complex
- Intertextuality: Slightly Complex
Stars and Stripes: The Story of the American Flag
by Sarah L. Thomson, Bob Dacey, and Debra Bandelin
- Genres: Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 710
- Year Published: 2003
They Called Her Molly Pitcher
by Anne Rockwell and Cynthia von Buhler
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History
- Lexile: 900
- Year Published: 2002
This Land is Your Land
by Woody Guthrie and Kathy Jakobsen
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Music, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1998
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