Collection Analysis Report
for Are You Ready? School's Open!
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 14 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.
(14 of 14 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- English Language Arts (11 books)
- Picture Book (11 books)
- Social Studies (6 books)
- Humor (3 books)
- Nonfiction (3 books)
- Realistic Fiction (3 books)
- Adventure (1 books)
- Poetry (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 9 of 14 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: 515 (Range: 180 - 720)
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 |
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 14 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.
- 16 Videos
- 7 Book Readings
- 12 Lesson Plans
- Total of 135 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Reading Rockets's "Are You Ready? School's Open!". 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/QLOFYPW
Carmen Learns English
by Judy Cox and Angela Dominguez
- Genres: Picture Book, Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: Latino/a/e/x (Global), Latino (US / Canada)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Spanish
- Lexile: 560
- Year Published: 2010
Fire Drill
by Paul DuBois Jacobs, Jennifer Swender, and Huy Voun Lee
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 180
- Year Published: 2010
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Fire DrillFirst Grade Jitters
by Robert Quackenbush and Yan Nascimbene
- Grades Used: pk, k, 1
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1982
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Slightly Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Slightly Complex
- Conventionality: Slightly Complex
- Vocabulary: Slightly Complex
- Sentence Structure: Slightly Complex
- Life Experiences: Slightly Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Slightly Complex
Is Your Buffalo Ready for Kindergarten?
by Audrey Vernick and Daniel Jennewein
- Genres: Humor, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2010
Kindergarten Day: USA and China
by Trish Marx and Ellen B. Senisi
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: Social Studies
- Lexile: 580
- Year Published: 2010
Kindergarten Diary
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2010
The King of Kindergarten
by Derrick Barnes and Vanessa Brantley-Newton
- Genres: Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 720
- Year Published: 2019
Ming Goes to School
by Deirdre Sullivan and Maja Löfdahl
- Genres: Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Asian American, Asian (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 330
- Year Published: 2016
Miss Brooks Loves Books! (and I Don't)
by Barbara Bottner and Michael Emberley
- Grades Used: pk, k, 1
- Genres: Humor, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 560
- Year Published: 2010
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Slightly Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Very Complex
- Conventionality: Slightly Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Slightly Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
Our Class is a Family
by Shannon Olsen and Sandie Sonke
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2020
A Pirate's Guide to First Grade
by James Preller and Greg Ruth
- Genres: Adventure, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 690
- Year Published: 2010
School's First Day of School
by Adam Rex and Christian Robinson
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 580
- Year Published: 2016
There's No Place Like School: Classroom Poems
by Jack Prelutsky and Jane Manning
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2010
This School Year Will Be the Best!
by Kay Winters and Renée Andriani
- Genres: Humor, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: Social Studies
- Lexile: 440
- Year Published: 2010
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