Collection Analysis Report
for New Addition to the Family
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 (11 books)
- Picture Book (9 books)
- Realistic Fiction (5 books)
- Humor (4 books)
- Health (3 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 6 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: 523 (Range: 300 - 890)
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 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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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.
- 11 Videos
- 5 Book Readings
- 10 Lesson Plans
- Total of 87 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Reading Rockets's "New Addition to the Family". 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/QL6A3PS
The Boss Baby
by Marla Frazee
- Genres: Humor, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 300
- Year Published: 2011
How to Be a Baby: By Me, the Big Sister
by Sally Lloyd-Jones and Sue Heap
- Genres: Humor, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Health
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2007
I Used to Be the Baby
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2002
Julius, the Baby of the World
by Kevin Henkes
- Genres: Humor, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Health
- Lexile: 460
- Year Published: 1990
Martha Doesn't Share
by Samantha Berger and Bruce Whatley
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2010
Once Upon a Baby Brother
by Sarah Sullivan and Tricia Tusa
- Genres: Humor, Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2010
Peter's Chair
- Grades Used: k, 1, 2
- Genres: Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Health
- Lexile: 500
- Year Published: 1967
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Slightly Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Very Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Slightly Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Slightly Complex
Socks
by Beverly Cleary, Beatrice Darwin, and Alan Tiegreen
- Curricular Areas: Science, English Language Arts
- Lexile: 890
- Year Published: 1973
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for SocksStanley's Little Sister
by Linda Bailey and Bill Slavin
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 510
- Year Published: 2010
There's Going to Be a Baby
by John Burningham and Helen Oxenbury
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 480
- Year Published: 2010
Will It Be a Baby Brother?
by Eve Bunting and Beth Spiegel
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2010
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