Collection Analysis Report
for Tall Tales
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 11 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.
(11 of 11 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- Fairy Tales / Folklore (11 books)
- English Language Arts (10 books)
- Picture Book (6 books)
- Social Studies (2 books)
- Adventure (1 books)
- Graphic Novel (1 books)
- Historical Fiction (1 books)
- History (1 books)
- Math (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 10 of 11 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: 899 (Range: 500 - 1180)
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 1 of 11 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.
- 7 Videos
- 3 Book Readings
- 7 Lesson Plans
- Total of 80 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Reading Rockets's "Tall Tales". 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/QLOROG8
American Tall Tales
by Mary Pope Osborne and Michael McCurdy
- Grades Used: 2, 3, 4
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History
- Lexile: 970
- Year Published: 1991
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly 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
The Boy Who Drew Cats: A Japanese Folktale
by Arthur A. Levine and Frederic Clement
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Asian, Asian (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1994
Children of the Dragon: Selected Tales from Vietnam
by Sherry Garland and Trina Schart Hyman
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore
- Cultural Experiences: Asian, Asian (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 1000
- Year Published: 2001
Cut from the Same Cloth: American Women of Myth, Legend, and Tall Tale
by Robert D. San Souci and Brian Pinkney
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 1050
- Year Published: 1993
Davy Crockett Saves the World
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Historical Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 1050
- Year Published: 2001
John Henry
by Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 620
- Year Published: 1994
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for John HenryKumak's Fish: A Tall Tale from the Far North
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: American Indian
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 500
- Year Published: 2004
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Kumak's FishMaster Man: A Tall Tale of Nigeria
by Aaron Shepard and David Wisniewski
- Genres: Adventure, Fairy Tales / Folklore, Graphic Novel, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African
- Curricular Areas: Social Studies
- Lexile: 550
- Year Published: 2001
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Master ManMountain Men: True Grit and Tall Tales
by Andrew Glass
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 1180
- Year Published: 2001
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Mountain MenPaul Bunyan
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Math, Science
- Lexile: 1030
- Year Published: 1984
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Paul BunyanPecos Bill
by Steven Kellogg and Laura Robb
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 1040
- Year Published: 1995
Qualitative Measures:
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