Collection Analysis Report
for Friends and Family
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 13 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.
(13 of 13 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- English Language Arts (12 books)
- Picture Book (6 books)
- Realistic Fiction (5 books)
- Nonfiction (3 books)
- Poetry (2 books)
- Social Studies (2 books)
- Art (1 books)
- Health (1 books)
- Historical Fiction (1 books)
- Humor (1 books)
- Science (1 books)
- Spanish (1 books)
Genre, Curricular, and Cultural Experience categories are assigned by TeachingBooks based on professional reviews, authoritative sources, and company guidelines.
Quantitative Measures
For 9 of 13 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: 487 (Range: 40 - 700)
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 13 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
- 7 Book Readings
- 13 Lesson Plans
- Total of 116 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Reading Rockets's "Friends and Family". 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/QLUR8JF
Black Is Brown Is Tan
by Arnold Adoff and Emily Arnold McCully
- Genres: Poetry, Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Multiracial / Mixed Race
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 540
- Year Published: 1973
Daddy and Me
by Karen Katz
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2003
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Daddy and MeFamilies
by Ann Morris
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: Social Studies
- Lexile: 40
- Year Published: 2000
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for FamiliesFamily Pictures / Cuadros de familia
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Cultural Experiences: Latino/a/e/x (Global), Latino (US / Canada)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Spanish
- Lexile: 660
- Year Published: 1993
Full, Full, Full of Love
by Trish Cooke and Paul Howard
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2003
The Hello, Goodbye Window
by Norton Juster and Chris Raschka
- Grades Used: pk, k, 1
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts
- Lexile: 670
- Year Published: 2005
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Slightly Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Slightly Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Slightly Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
Here We Go Round
by Alice McGill and Shane W. Evans
- Genres: Historical Fiction, Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 700
- Year Published: 2002
I Love My Daddy Because...
by Laurel Porter-Gaylord and Ashley Wolff
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2004
A Mother for Choco
by Keiko Kasza
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Health
- Lexile: 390
- Year Published: 1992
Owl Babies
by Martin Waddell and Patrick Benson
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: 500
- Year Published: 1975
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Owl BabiesRattletrap Car
by Phyllis Root and Jill Barton
- Genres: Humor, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 450
- Year Published: 2004
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes
by Mem Fox and Helen Oxenbury
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2008
When I Am Old with You
by Angela Johnson and David Soman
- Genres: Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 440
- Year Published: 1990
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