Collection Analysis Report
for Mothers & More: Books about Families
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 16 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.
(16 of 16 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- English Language Arts (16 books)
- Picture Book (12 books)
- Health (3 books)
- Realistic Fiction (3 books)
- Science (3 books)
- Beginning / Early Reader (2 books)
- Holiday (2 books)
- Humor (2 books)
- Spanish (2 books)
- Math (1 books)
- Poetry (1 books)
- Social Studies (1 books)
Genre, Curricular, and Cultural Experience categories are assigned by TeachingBooks based on professional reviews, authoritative sources, and company guidelines.
Quantitative Measures
For 13 of 16 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: 541 (Range: 240 - 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 16 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.
- 13 Videos
- 8 Book Readings
- 32 Lesson Plans
- Total of 134 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Reading Rockets's "Mothers & More: Books about Families". 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/QLQFXAX
'Let's Get a Pup!' Said Kate
by Bob Graham
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: 600
- Year Published: 2001
Are You My Mother?
by P.D. Eastman
- Genres: Humor
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: 240
- Year Published: 1960
A Chair for My Mother
- Grades Used: 2, 3
- Genres: Picture Book, Realistic Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Health, Math
- Lexile: 530
- Year Published: 1982
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Slightly Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Very Complex
- Conventionality: Slightly Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Slightly Complex
- Life Experiences: Slightly Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Slightly Complex
How My Parents Learned to Eat
by Ina R. Friedman and Allen Say
- Genres: Beginning / Early Reader, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Multiracial / Mixed Race, Asian, Asian (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 450
- Year Published: 1984
Hush! a Thai Lullaby
by Minfong Ho and Holly Meade
- Genres: Poetry, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Asian, Asian (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 600
- Year Published: 1996
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Slightly Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Slightly Complex
- Conventionality: Slightly Complex
- Vocabulary: Slightly Complex
- Sentence Structure: Slightly Complex
- Life Experiences: Slightly Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Slightly Complex
Mamá and Me
by Arthur Dorros and Rudy Gutierrez
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Beginning / Early Reader, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Latino/a/e/x (Global), Latino (US / Canada)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Spanish
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2011
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Mamá and MeMama, Do You Love Me?
by Barbara Joosse and Barbara Lavallee
- Cultural Experiences: American Indian
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 480
- Year Published: 1991
Mice and Beans
by Pam Muñoz Ryan and Joe Cepeda
- Genres: Holiday, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Latino/a/e/x (Global), Latino (Latin America)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Spanish
- Lexile: 620
- Year Published: 2001
A Mother for Choco
by Keiko Kasza
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Health
- Lexile: 390
- Year Published: 1992
My Daddy and I ...
by Eloise Greenfield and Jan Spivey Gilchrist
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1991
My Mom
- Genres: Humor, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2005
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for My MomOn Mother's Lap
by Ann Herbert Scott and Glo Coalson
- Genres: Holiday, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: American Indian
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 400
- Year Published: 1972
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 BabiesThe Runaway Bunny
by Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd
- Grades Used: 2
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 600
- Year Published: 1972
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Slightly Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Slightly Complex
- Vocabulary: Slightly Complex
- Sentence Structure: Slightly Complex
- Life Experiences: Slightly Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Slightly Complex
Tell Me a Story, Mama
by Angela Johnson and David Soman
- Genres: Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 550
- Year Published: 1989
Tell Me Again about the Night I Was Born
by Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Health
- Lexile: 1080
- Year Published: 1996
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