Collection Analysis Report
for Heroes
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 11 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.
(11 of 11 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- English Language Arts (8 books)
- Picture Book (8 books)
- Nonfiction (5 books)
- Biography (4 books)
- History (4 books)
- Art (3 books)
- Science (3 books)
- Music (2 books)
- Poetry (2 books)
- Social Studies (2 books)
- Fairy Tales / Folklore (1 books)
- Health (1 books)
- Historical Fiction (1 books)
- Physical Education (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 6 of 11 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: 705 (Range: 480 - 820)
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 2 of 11 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.
- 18 Videos
- 7 Book Readings
- 12 Lesson Plans
- Total of 192 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Reading Rockets's "Heroes". 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/QLO7D29
Bronzeville Boys and Girls
by Gwendolyn Brooks and Faith Ringgold
- Genres: Poetry, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1956
Dear Mr. Rosenwald
by Carole Boston Weatherford and R. Gregory Christie
- Genres: Historical Fiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 720
- Year Published: 2006
Dizzy
by Jonah Winter and Sean Qualls
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Music
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2006
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for DizzyFly High!: The Story of Bessie Coleman
by Louise Borden, Mary Kay Kroeger, and Teresa Flavin
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: Science
- Lexile: 820
- Year Published: 2004
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Fly High!Just Like Josh Gibson
by Angela Johnson and Beth Peck
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Sports, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American, Gender, Women / Girls
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Physical Education
- Lexile: 790
- Year Published: 2004
Let It Shine: Three Favorite Spirituals
by Ashley Bryan
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: Art, Music
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2007
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Let It ShineMarvelous Cornelius: Hurricane Katrina and the Spirit of New Orleans
by Phil Bildner and John Parra
- Grades Used: 1, 2, 3
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: 620
- Year Published: 2015
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Very Complex
- Intertextuality: Moderately Complex
The People Could Fly: The Picture Book
by Virginia Hamilton, Leo Dillon, and Diane Dillon
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts, History
- Lexile: 480
- Year Published: 2004
Pretty Brown Face
by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney
- Genres: Poetry
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Health
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1997
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
Wind Flyers
by Angela Johnson and Loren Long
- Genres: Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: History, Science
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2007
Qualitative Measures:
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