Collection Analysis Report
for Music Makers
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.)
- English Language Arts (11 books)
- Music (11 books)
- Picture Book (9 books)
- Nonfiction (6 books)
- Biography (4 books)
- Poetry (2 books)
- Spanish (2 books)
- Humor (1 books)
- Realistic Fiction (1 books)
- Science (1 books)
Genre, Curricular, and Cultural Experience categories are assigned by TeachingBooks based on professional reviews, authoritative sources, and company guidelines.
Quantitative Measures
For 5 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: 630 (Range: 260 - 1010)
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 |
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.
- 11 Videos
- 6 Book Readings
- 6 Lesson Plans
- Total of 111 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Reading Rockets's "Music Makers". 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/QLPTSZA
A-Tisket, A-Tasket
by Ella Fitzgerald and Ora Eitan
- Genres: Picture Book, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Music
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2003
Baby Chicks Sing, The / Los pollitos dicen
by Nancy Abraham Hall, Jill Syverson-Stork, and Kay Chorao
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Cultural Experiences: Latino/a/e/x (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Music, Spanish
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1999
Charlie Parker Played Be Bop
- Grades Used: k, 1, 2
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Music
- Lexile: 260
- Year Published: 1992
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Slightly Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Very Complex
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Slightly Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Very Complex
- Intertextuality: Very Complex
Dark Was the Night: Blind Willie Johnson's Journey to the Stars
by Gary Golio and E.B. Lewis
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global), Disability
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Music
- Lexile: 1010
- Year Published: 2020
Diez Deditos / Ten Little Fingers: & Other Play Rhymes and Action Songs from Latin America
by José-Luis Orozco and Elisa Kleven
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
- Cultural Experiences: Latino/a/e/x (Global), Latino (Latin America)
- Curricular Areas: Music, Spanish
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1997
Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa
by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney
- Grades Used: 2, 3, 4
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Music
- Lexile: 700
- Year Published: 2007
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Moderately Complex
- Intertextuality: Moderately Complex
The Green Piano: How Little Me Found Music
by Roberta Flack, Tonya Bolden, and Hayden Goodman
- Genres: Biography, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Music
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2023
Hip Cat
by Jonathan London and Woodleigh Marx Hubbard
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Music
- Lexile: 630
- Year Published: 1993
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Hip CatIf You're Happy and You Know It
by Jan Ormerod and Lindsey Gardiner
- Genres: Humor, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Music
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2003
Music, Music for Everyone
- Grades Used: 1, 2, 3, 4
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Music
- Lexile: 550
- Year Published: 1984
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Slightly Complex
- Conventionality: Slightly Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Very Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
Simple Gifts
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Music
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1998
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Simple GiftsSnow Music
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2003
Qualitative Measures:
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