Collection Analysis Report
for Olympics and Fun Summer Sports
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.)
- Sports (10 books)
- English Language Arts (9 books)
- Physical Education (7 books)
- Nonfiction (5 books)
- Picture Book (4 books)
- Adventure (2 books)
- Biography (2 books)
- History (2 books)
- Poetry (2 books)
- Science Fiction / Fantasy (2 books)
- Social Studies (2 books)
- Beginning / Early Reader (1 books)
- Health (1 books)
- Math (1 books)
Genre, Curricular, and Cultural Experience categories are assigned by TeachingBooks based on professional reviews, authoritative sources, and company guidelines.
Quantitative Measures
For 9 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: 722 (Range: 380 - 1200)
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 |
11-12 | 1185-1385 | 11.20-14.10 | 67-74 | 10.34-14.20 | Z+ | 9.57-12.00 | 12.30-14.50 |
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
= 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
- 2 Book Readings
- 31 Lesson Plans
- Total of 115 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Reading Rockets's "Olympics and Fun Summer Sports". 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/qlIR27U
Ancient Greece and the Olympics
by Mary Pope Osborne, Natalie Pope Boyce, and Salvatore Murdocca Mary Pope Osborne, Natalie Pope Boyce, and Salvatore Murdocca
Part of the Magic Tree House: Fact Tracker Series
- Genres: Nonfiction, Sports
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Physical Education, Social Studies
- Lexile: 590
- Year Published: 2004
Elympics
by X.J. Kennedy and Graham Percy
- Genres: Adventure, Picture Book, Poetry, Sports
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Physical Education
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1999
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for ElympicsHour of the Olympics
by Mary Pope Osborne and Salvatore Murdocca Mary Pope Osborne and Salvatore Murdocca
Book 16 of the Magic Tree House Series
- Genres: Adventure, Science Fiction / Fantasy, Sports
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 380
- Year Published: 1998
Little Rat Sets Sail
by Monika Bang-Campbell and Molly Bang
- Genres: Science Fiction / Fantasy, Sports, Beginning / Early Reader
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 540
- Year Published: 2003
The Lucky Baseball Bat
by Matt Christopher and Robert Henneberger
- Genres: Sports
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 450
- Year Published: 1991
The Mud Flat Olympics
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Math
- Lexile: 520
- Year Published: 1994
A Picture Book of Jesse Owens
by David A. Adler and Robert Casilla David A. Adler and Robert Casilla
Part of the David A. Adler Picture Book Biographies Series
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Sports, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Physical Education
- Lexile: 1030
- Year Published: 1992
Sports! Sports! Sports!: A Poetry Collection
by Lee Bennett Hopkins and Brian Floca
- Genres: Poetry, Sports, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Physical Education
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1999
The Summer Olympics
by Bob Knotts
- Genres: Nonfiction, Sports
- Curricular Areas: History, Physical Education
- Lexile: 940
- Year Published: 2005
Swifter, Higher, Stronger: A Photographic History of the Summer Olympics
by Sue Macy
- Genres: Nonfiction, Sports
- Curricular Areas: Health, Physical Education
- Lexile: 1200
- Year Published: 2004
Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman
by Kathleen Krull and David Diaz
- Grades Used: 3, 4, 5
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book, Sports
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Physical Education
- Lexile: 850
- Year Published: 1996
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Slightly Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Moderately Complex
- Intertextuality: Moderately Complex
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