Collection Analysis Report
for It's a Small World After All
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 (5 books)
- Social Studies (5 books)
- Fairy Tales / Folklore (4 books)
- Nonfiction (3 books)
- Spanish (3 books)
- Humor (2 books)
- Beginning / Early Reader (1 books)
- Biography (1 books)
- Health (1 books)
- Math (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 7 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: 638 (Range: 480 - 910)
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 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.
- 5 Videos
- 3 Book Readings
- 12 Lesson Plans
- Total of 85 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Reading Rockets's "It's a Small World After All". 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/QL8675C
All the Way to Lhasa: A Tale from Tibet
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Beginning / Early Reader, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2002
A Crazy Mixed-Up Spanglish Day
by Marisa Montes and Joe Cepeda
- Genres: Humor
- Cultural Experiences: Latino/a/e/x (Global), Latino (US / Canada)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Spanish, Social Studies
- Lexile: 480
- Year Published: 2003
El Chino
by Allen Say
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book, Sports
- Cultural Experiences: Asian American, Asian (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Spanish, Social Studies
- Lexile: 600
- Year Published: 1990
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for El ChinoHead, Body, Legs: A Story from Liberia
by Won-Ldy Paye, Margaret H. Lippert, and Julie Paschkis
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 500
- Year Published: 2002
I Am America
- Genres: Poetry, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2003
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for I Am AmericaMr. Popper's Penguins
by Richard Atwater, Robert Lawson, and Florence Atwater
- Grades Used: 4, 5
- Genres: Humor
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Health, Math
- Lexile: 910
- Year Published: 1938
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Slightly Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Slightly Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Moderately Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Slightly Complex
Sitti's Secrets
by Naomi Shihab Nye and Nancy Carpenter
- Cultural Experiences: Middle Eastern
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 650
- Year Published: 1994
Stories to Solve: Folktales from Around the World
by George Shannon and Peter Sís
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: Social Studies
- Lexile: 790
- Year Published: 1985
Throw Your Tooth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions from Around the World
by Selby Beeler and G. Brian Karas
- Grades Used: k, 1, 2, 3
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: Social Studies
- Lexile: 540
- Year Published: 1998
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Slightly Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Very Complex
- Conventionality: Slightly Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Very Complex
- Intertextuality: Moderately Complex
Tortillas and Lullabies / Tortillas y cancioncitas
by Lynn Reiser
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Spanish
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1998
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