Collection Analysis Report
for Black History Month Celebration
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 12 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.
(12 of 12 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- History (10 books)
- Nonfiction (10 books)
- Biography (9 books)
- Social Studies (8 books)
- Picture Book (7 books)
- English Language Arts (3 books)
- Physical Education (2 books)
- Sports (2 books)
- Art (1 books)
- Holiday (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 12 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: 886 (Range: 600 - 1080)
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 3 of 12 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.
- 26 Videos
- 16 Book Readings
- 29 Lesson Plans
- Total of 240 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Reading Rockets's "Black History Month Celebration". 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/QLIKFSG
Carter Reads the Newspaper
by Deborah Hopkinson and Don Tate
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 810
- Year Published: 2019
Child of the Civil Rights Movement
by Paula Young Shelton and Raúl Colón
- Genres: Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 840
- Year Published: 2009
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
- Grades Used: 4, 5
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 1000
- Year Published: 2009
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
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Moderately Complex
- Intertextuality: Moderately Complex
Evicted!: The Struggle for the Right to Vote
by Alice Faye Duncan and Charly Palmer
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 1080
- Year Published: 2022
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Evicted!Henry Aaron's Dream
by Matt Tavares
- Grades Used: 4, 5
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Sports, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: History, Physical Education
- Lexile: 920
- Year Published: 2010
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Slightly Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Slightly Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Moderately Complex
- Intertextuality: Slightly Complex
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Stephen Alcorn
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: History
- Lexile: 1000
- Year Published: 2000
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Let It ShineMarch On!: The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
by Christine King Farris and London Ladd
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 860
- Year Published: 2008
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for March On!Muhammad Ali: The People's Champion
by Walter Dean Myers and Alix Delinois
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book, Sports
- Curricular Areas: Physical Education
- Lexile: 770
- Year Published: 2010
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Muhammad AliOpal Lee and What It Means to Be Free: The True Story of the Grandmother of Juneteenth
by Alice Faye Duncan and Keturah Ariel Bobo
- Genres: Biography, Holiday, Nonfiction
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 880
- Year Published: 2022
The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne
by Lesa Cline-Ransome and John Parra
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global), Gender, Women / Girls
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 1080
- Year Published: 2020
Rosa
by Nikki Giovanni and Bryan Collier
- Grades Used: 2, 3, 4
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 800
- Year Published: 2005
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Very Complex
- Conventionality: Slightly Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Moderately Complex
- Intertextuality: Moderately Complex
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down
by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney
- Genres: Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 600
- Year Published: 2010
Qualitative Measures:
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