Collection Analysis Report
for Lincoln, Slavery, the Civil War
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.)
- History (9 books)
- Nonfiction (6 books)
- Social Studies (6 books)
- English Language Arts (4 books)
- Historical Fiction (4 books)
- Biography (3 books)
- Adventure (1 books)
- Art (1 books)
- Poetry (1 books)
Genre, Curricular, and Cultural Experience categories are assigned by TeachingBooks based on professional reviews, authoritative sources, and company guidelines.
Quantitative Measures
For 6 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: 1005 (Range: 760 - 1210)
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 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.
- 12 Videos
- 8 Book Readings
- 13 Lesson Plans
- Total of 120 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on AdLit's "Lincoln, Slavery, the Civil War". 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/QL75ECM
Across Five Aprils
by Irene Hunt
- Genres: Historical Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 1100
- Year Published: 1964
The Brothers' War: Civil War Voices in Verse
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2007
Elijah of Buxton
- Grades Used: 6, 7
- Genres: Historical Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 980
- Year Published: 2007
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Very Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Exceedingly Complex
- Sentence Structure: Very Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
Freedom Roads: Searching for the Underground Railroad
by Joyce Hansen, Gary McGowan, and James Ransome
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2003
Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: History
- Lexile: 1130
- Year Published: 2005
A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861
Book 15 of the Dear America Series
- Genres: Historical Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 850
- Year Published: 1999
Lincoln Through the Lens: How Photography Revealed and Shaped an Extraordinary Life
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: History
- Lexile: 1210
- Year Published: 2008
Mr. Lincoln's Camera Man: Mathew B. Brady
by Roy Meredith
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: Art, History
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1974
Red Moon at Sharpsburg
- Genres: Adventure, Historical Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 760
- Year Published: 2007
When Johnny Went Marching: Young Americans Fight the Civil War
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2001
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