Collection Analysis Report
for Say Hello!
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.)
- Biography (10 books)
- History (10 books)
- Nonfiction (10 books)
- Picture Book (9 books)
- Social Studies (6 books)
- Art (3 books)
- Science (3 books)
- STEAM (2 books)
- English Language Arts (1 books)
- Spanish (1 books)
Genre, Curricular, and Cultural Experience categories are assigned by TeachingBooks based on professional reviews, authoritative sources, and company guidelines.
Quantitative Measures
For 10 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: 772 (Range: 600 - 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 2 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.
- 5 Videos
- 1 Book Readings
- 14 Lesson Plans
- Total of 140 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Reading Rockets's "Say Hello!". 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/qlHZOH7
Colorful Dreamer: The Story of Artist Henri Matisse
by Marjorie Blain Parker and Holly Berry
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: Art, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 600
- Year Published: 2012
From the Good Mountain: How Gutenberg Changed the World
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 680
- Year Published: 2012
Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills
by Renée Watson and Christian Robinson
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 770
- Year Published: 2012
I, Galileo
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: History, Science, STEAM
- Lexile: 940
- Year Published: 2012
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for I, GalileoIf You Spent a Day with Thoreau at Walden Pond
by Robert Burleigh and Wendell Minor
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: History, Science
- Lexile: 790
- Year Published: 2012
It Jes' Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw
by Don Tate and R. Gregory Christie
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: Art, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 830
- Year Published: 2012
Martin de Porres: The Rose in the Desert
by Gary D. Schmidt and David Diaz
- Grades Used: k, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Latino/a/e/x (Global), Latino (Latin America)
- Curricular Areas: History, Spanish, Social Studies
- Lexile: 640
- Year Published: 2012
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
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Moderately Complex
- Intertextuality: Very Complex
Molly, by Golly!: The Legend of Molly Williams, America's First Female Firefighter
by Dianne Ochiltree and Kathleen Kemly
- Grades Used: 2
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American, Gender, Women / Girls
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 830
- Year Published: 2012
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Slightly Complex
- Conventionality: Slightly Complex
- Vocabulary: Slightly Complex
- Sentence Structure: Slightly Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Slightly Complex
- Intertextuality: Slightly Complex
Monsieur Marceau: Actor without Words
by Leda Schubert and Gérard DuBois
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: Art, History
- Lexile: 740
- Year Published: 2012
Timeless Thomas: How Thomas Edison Changed Our Lives
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: History, Science, STEAM
- Lexile: 900
- Year Published: 2012
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