Collection Analysis Report
for Poetry for All Ages
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 (10 books)
- Poetry (10 books)
- Nonfiction (7 books)
- Picture Book (6 books)
- Art (4 books)
- Humor (1 books)
- Math (1 books)
- Science (1 books)
- Social Studies (1 books)
- Spanish (1 books)
Genre, Curricular, and Cultural Experience categories are assigned by TeachingBooks based on professional reviews, authoritative sources, and company guidelines.
Quantitative Measures
For 3 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: 596 (Range: 330 - 810)
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 1 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
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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.
- 9 Videos
- 3 Book Readings
- 5 Lesson Plans
- Total of 96 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Reading Rockets's "Poetry for All Ages". 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/QLCTHMQ
All the Small Poems and Fourteen More
by Valerie Worth and Natalie Babbitt
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1996
Dog Days: Rhymes Around the Year
by Jack Prelutsky and Dyanna Wolcott
- Genres: Humor, Nonfiction, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1999
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Dog DaysGathering the Sun: An Alphabet in Spanish and English
by Alma Flor Ada and Simon Silva
- Grades Used: 2, 3
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Latino/a/e/x (Global), Latino (US / Canada)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Spanish
- Lexile: 650
- Year Published: 1997
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Slightly Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Slightly Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Moderately Complex
- Intertextuality: Moderately Complex
Hailstones and Halibut Bones
by Mary O'Neill and John Wallner
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1961
Harlem: A Poem
by Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers
- Genres: Poetry, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1997
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for HarlemMy Shadow
by Robert Louis Stevenson and Ted Rand
- Genres: Poetry, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Math, Science
- Lexile: 810
- Year Published: 1915
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for My ShadowMy Very First Mother Goose
by Iona Opie and Rosemary Wells
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1996
Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child 's Book of Poems
by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers, Eva Moore, Jan Carr, and Marcia Brown
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1988
Under the Sunday Tree
by Eloise Greenfield and Amos Ferguson
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1991
Very Short Stories to Read Together
by Mary Ann Hoberman and Michael Emberley
- Genres: Poetry, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 330
- Year Published: 2001
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