Collection Analysis Report
for Spring's Bounty
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.)
- English Language Arts (10 books)
- Picture Book (8 books)
- Science (8 books)
- Poetry (5 books)
- Nonfiction (2 books)
- Art (1 books)
- Concept Book (1 books)
- Health (1 books)
- Humor (1 books)
- Math (1 books)
- Music (1 books)
- Realistic Fiction (1 books)
- Science Fiction / Fantasy (1 books)
- Sports (1 books)
Genre, Curricular, and Cultural Experience categories are assigned by TeachingBooks based on professional reviews, authoritative sources, and company guidelines.
Quantitative Measures
For 4 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: 680 (Range: 520 - 1050)
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 2 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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- 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.
- 10 Videos
- 6 Book Readings
- 14 Lesson Plans
- Total of 118 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Reading Rockets's "Spring's Bounty". 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/QL9PWKF
All the Water in the World
by George Ella Lyon and Katherine Tillotson
- Grades Used: k, 1, 2
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: 520
- Year Published: 2011
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Exceedingly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Exceedingly Complex
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Slightly Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Slightly Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Slightly Complex
And Then It's Spring
by Julie Fogliano and Erin E. Stead
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: 600
- Year Published: 2012
Blue Sky
by Audrey Wood
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2012
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Blue SkyCounting in the Garden
by Kim Parker
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Math, Science
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2005
Green
- Grades Used: pk, k, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Genres: Concept Book
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2012
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Very Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Slightly Complex
- Sentence Structure: Slightly Complex
- Life Experiences: Moderately Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
I've Lost My Hippopotamus
by Jack Prelutsky and Jackie Urbanovic
- Genres: Humor, Poetry, Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2012
Jo MacDonald Had a Garden
by Mary Quattlebaum and Laura Bryant
- Genres: Poetry, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Music, Science
- Lexile: 550
- Year Published: 2012
Seed, Soil, Sun: Earth's Recipe for Food
by Cris Peterson and David Lundquist
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: Science
- Lexile: 1050
- Year Published: 2010
Split! Splat!
by Amy Gibson and Steve Björkman
- Genres: Poetry, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2012
A Stick Is an Excellent Thing: Poems Celebrating Outdoor Play
by Marilyn Singer and LeUyen Pham
- Genres: Nonfiction, Picture Book, Poetry, Sports
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Health
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2012
Water Sings Blue: Ocean Poems
by Kate Coombs and Meilo So
- Genres: Picture Book, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2012
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