Collection Analysis Report
for Personal Favorites
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 9 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.
(9 of 9 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- English Language Arts (9 books)
- Picture Book (6 books)
- Humor (3 books)
- Beginning / Early Reader (2 books)
- Poetry (2 books)
- Science (2 books)
- Fairy Tales / Folklore (1 books)
- Health (1 books)
- History (1 books)
- Nonfiction (1 books)
- Realistic Fiction (1 books)
Genre, Curricular, and Cultural Experience categories are assigned by TeachingBooks based on professional reviews, authoritative sources, and company guidelines.
Quantitative Measures
For 8 of 9 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: 482 (Range: -50 - 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 9 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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- Moderately
- Very
- Exceedingly
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.
- 22 Videos
- 19 Book Readings
- 44 Lesson Plans
- Total of 105 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Reading Rockets's "Personal Favorites". 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/QLVJV8S
The Five Chinese Brothers
by Claire Hucket Bishop and Kurt Wiese
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 600
- Year Published: 1938
Good Night, Gorilla
- Genres: Beginning / Early Reader
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: -50
- Year Published: 1994
Guess How Much I Love You
by Sam McBratney and Anita Jeram
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 490
- Year Published: 1994
Harry the Dirty Dog
by Gene Zion and Margaret Bloy Graham
- Genres: Humor, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 520
- Year Published: 1960
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Slightly Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Moderately Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Slightly Complex
Hop on Pop
by Dr. Seuss
- Grades Used: pk, k, 1, 2
- Genres: Beginning / Early Reader, Humor, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 190
- Year Published: 1963
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Slightly Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Slightly Complex
- Conventionality: Slightly Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Slightly Complex
- Life Experiences: Moderately Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Slightly Complex
Madeline's Rescue
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: 460
- Year Published: 1953
More Than Anything Else
by Marie Bradby and Chris K. Soentpiet
- Grades Used: k, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- Genres: Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History
- Lexile: 570
- Year Published: 1995
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
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
Where the Sidewalk Ends
- Genres: Humor, Nonfiction, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2004
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