Collection Analysis Report
for Helping Hands
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 13 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.
(13 of 13 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- English Language Arts (13 books)
- Realistic Fiction (7 books)
- Social Studies (6 books)
- Humor (3 books)
- Adventure (2 books)
- Mystery (2 books)
- Science (2 books)
- Science Fiction / Fantasy (2 books)
- Health (1 books)
- Historical Fiction (1 books)
- History (1 books)
Genre, Curricular, and Cultural Experience categories are assigned by TeachingBooks based on professional reviews, authoritative sources, and company guidelines.
Quantitative Measures
For 12 of 13 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: 775 (Range: 670 - 940)
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 5 of 13 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.
- 5 Videos
- 15 Book Readings
- 16 Lesson Plans
- Total of 125 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on AdLit's "Helping Hands". 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/qlU9KNK
Dream Freedom
- Genres: Historical Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: African, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 670
- Year Published: 2000
Freak the Mighty
- Grades Used: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: Disability
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 930
- Year Published: 1993
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Slightly Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
- Genres: Humor, Realistic Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 940
- Year Published: 1998
Graceling
by Kristin Cashore Kristin Cashore
Book 1 of the Graceling Realm Series
- Grades Used: 6, 7, 8
- Genres: Adventure, Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 730
- Year Published: 2008
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Very Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Slightly Complex
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
Home, and Other Big, Fat Lies
by Jill Wolfson
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: 680
- Year Published: 2006
Hoot
by Carl Hiaasen
- Grades Used: 4, 5, 6
- Genres: Humor, Mystery
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies
- Lexile: 760
- Year Published: 2002
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Slightly Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Moderately Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
Hope Was Here
by Joan Bauer
- Grades Used: 4, 5, 6
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Health
- Lexile: 710
- Year Published: 2000
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Slightly Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Slightly Complex
- Vocabulary: Slightly Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Moderately Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Slightly Complex
How to Build a House
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 730
- Year Published: 2008
The Midnight Charter
by David Whitley David Whitley
Book 1 of the Agora Trilogy
- Genres: Adventure, Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 790
- Year Published: 2009
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 840
- Year Published: 2004
Schooled
- Grades Used: 6
- Genres: Humor, Realistic Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 740
- Year Published: 2007
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Very Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Very Complex
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Very Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
The Secret of the Mansion
by Julie Campbell, Mary Stevens, and Michael Koelsch
- Genres: Mystery
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1948
Weeping Under This Same Moon
by Jana Laiz
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: Immigrant / Refugee, Asian, Asian (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 780
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