Collection Analysis Report
for Holiday Tales: A Native Am. Perspective
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 8 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.
(8 of 8 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- Holiday (8 books)
- English Language Arts (7 books)
- Picture Book (4 books)
- Nonfiction (2 books)
- Poetry (2 books)
- Realistic Fiction (2 books)
- Biography (1 books)
- Fairy Tales / Folklore (1 books)
- Physical Education (1 books)
- Social Studies (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 3 of 8 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: 766 (Range: 660 - 910)
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 |
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 8 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.
- 3 Videos
- 4 Book Readings
- 9 Lesson Plans
- Total of 64 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Colorin Colorado's "Holiday Tales: A Native Am. Perspective". 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/QLYJ5EE
Baseball Bats for Christmas
by Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak and Vladyana Langer Krykorka
- Genres: Holiday, Sports
- Cultural Experiences: American Indian
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Physical Education
- Lexile: 730
- Year Published: 1990
The Christmas Coat: Memories of My Sioux Childhood
by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve and Ellen Beier
- Genres: Biography, Holiday, Nonfiction
- Cultural Experiences: American Indian
- Curricular Areas: Social Studies
- Lexile: 660
- Year Published: 2011
Circle of Wonder: A Native American Christmas Story
- Genres: Holiday, Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: American Indian
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1999
Coyote Christmas: A Lakota Story
by S.D. Nelson
- Genres: Holiday, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: American Indian
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2007
A Coyote Solstice Tale
by Thomas King and Gary Clement
- Grades Used: k, 1, 2
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Holiday, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: American Indian
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 910
- Year Published: 2009
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Slightly Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Slightly Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
The Crying Christmas Tree
by Allan Crow and David Beyers
- Genres: Holiday
- Cultural Experiences: American Indian
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
Native American Night Before Christmas
by Gary Robinson and Jesse T. Hummingbird
- Genres: Holiday, Poetry, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: American Indian
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2007
Red Parka Mary
by Peter Eyvindson and Rhian Brynjolson
- Genres: Holiday, Poetry, Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: American Indian
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
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