Collection Analysis Report
for Grandpa's Stories
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 20 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.
(20 of 20 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- English Language Arts (19 books)
- Picture Book (14 books)
- Realistic Fiction (9 books)
- Social Studies (7 books)
- Spanish (5 books)
- Art (3 books)
- Beginning / Early Reader (1 books)
- Graphic Novel (1 books)
- Music (1 books)
- Nonfiction (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 13 of 20 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: 597 (Range: 310 - 1240)
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 6 of 20 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.
- 16 Videos
- 17 Book Readings
- 27 Lesson Plans
- Total of 273 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Colorin Colorado's "Grandpa's Stories". 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/QLRGFVN
Chachaji's Cup
by Uma Krishnaswami and Soumya Sitaraman
- Cultural Experiences: Immigrant / Refugee, South Asian, Asian American, Asian (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2003
Daniel Misses Someone
by Alexandra Cassel Schwartz and Jason Fruchter
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2021
Drawn Together
by Minh Lê and Dan Santat
- Genres: Picture Book, Graphic Novel
- Cultural Experiences: Asian American, Asian (Global)
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 310
- Year Published: 2018
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Very Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Exceedingly Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Slightly Complex
- Sentence Structure: Slightly Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Exceedingly Complex
Gigi and Ojiji
by Melissa Iwai
- Genres: Beginning / Early Reader, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Asian American, Asian (Global), Multiracial / Mixed Race
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2022
Grandfather and I
by Helen E. Buckley and Jan Ormerod
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 490
- Year Published: 1994
Grandfather Counts
by Andrea Cheng and Ange Zhang
- Grades Used: k
- Genres: Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Multiracial / Mixed Race, Asian American, Asian (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 570
- Year Published: 2000
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Very Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
Grandfather's Journey
by Allen Say
- Grades Used: 3, 4, 5
- Genres: Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Asian American, Asian, Asian (Global), Immigrant / Refugee
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 650
- Year Published: 1993
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
Grandfather's Story Cloth/Yawg Daim Paj Ntaub Dab Neeg
by Linda Gerdner, Sarah Langford, and Stuart Loughridge
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Disability
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 580
- Year Published: 2008
In America
by Marissa Moss
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Immigrant / Refugee
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 550
- Year Published: 1994
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for In AmericaIndian Shoes
by Cynthia Leitich Smith and Jim Madsen
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: American Indian
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 820
- Year Published: 2002
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Indian ShoesKunu's Basket: A Story from Indian Island
by Lee DeCora Francis and Susan Drucker
- Genres: Picture Book, Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: American Indian
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts
- Lexile: 490
- Year Published: 2012
My Tata's Guitar/ La guitarra de mi tata
by Ethriam Cash Brammer and Daniel Lechon
- Genres: Picture Book, Realistic Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Music, Spanish
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2002
My Tata's Remedies / Los remedios de mi Tata
by Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford and Antonio Castro Lopez
- Grades Used: 3, 4, 5, 6
- Genres: Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Latino/a/e/x (Global), Latino (US / Canada)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science, Spanish
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2015
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Slightly Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
Nimoshom and His Bus
by Penny M. Thomas and Karen Hibbard
- Cultural Experiences: American Indian
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 500
- Year Published: 2018
Our Grandparents: A Global Album
by Maya Ajmera, Sheila Kinkade, and Cindy Pon
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Cultural Experiences: American Indian
- Curricular Areas: Social Studies
- Lexile: 370
- Year Published: 2010
Remembering Grandpa
by Uma Krishnaswami and Layne Johnson
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2007
A Song of Frutas
by Margarita Engle and Sara Palacios
- Grades Used: pk, k, 1, 2, 3
- Genres: Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Latino/a/e/x (Global), Latino (Latin America), Latino (US / Canada)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Spanish, Social Studies
- Lexile: 1240
- Year Published: 2021
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Slightly Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Moderately Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
Tomás and the Library Lady
by Pat Mora and Raúl Colón
- Grades Used: 1, 2, 3
- Genres: Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Latino/a/e/x (Global), Latino (US / Canada)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Spanish
- Lexile: 500
- Year Published: 1997
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Slightly Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Slightly Complex
- Conventionality: Slightly Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Moderately Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
The Turtle of Oman
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: Middle Eastern, Immigrant / Refugee
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 700
- Year Published: 2014
Walk with Grandpa, A / Un paseo con abuelo
by Sharon K. Solomon and Pamela Barcita
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Spanish
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2009
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