Collection Analysis Report
for Social Studies
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.)
- History (7 books)
- Nonfiction (7 books)
- Picture Book (5 books)
- Biography (4 books)
- Social Studies (4 books)
- English Language Arts (3 books)
- Art (2 books)
- Fairy Tales / Folklore (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 8 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: 938 (Range: 540 - 1460)
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 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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- 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.
- 8 Videos
- 4 Book Readings
- 14 Lesson Plans
- Total of 92 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on NYC Department of Education Library Services's "Social Studies". 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/QL5S6FA
14 Cows for America
by Carmen Agra Deedy, Thomas Gonzalez, and Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah
- Grades Used: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- Genres: Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 540
- Year Published: 2009
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Very Complex
- Intertextuality: Very Complex
Aliens Are Coming!: The True Account of the 1938 War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts, History
- Lexile: 690
- Year Published: 2006
How the Sphinx Got to the Museum
- Genres: Biography, Fairy Tales / Folklore, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Middle Eastern
- Curricular Areas: Art, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 1460
- Year Published: 2010
Lincoln: A Photobiography
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 1040
- Year Published: 1987
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for LincolnNurse, Soldier, Spy: The Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War Hero
by Marissa Moss and John Hendrix
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History
- Lexile: 820
- Year Published: 2011
Old Penn Station
by William Low
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History
- Lexile: 940
- Year Published: 2007
Seven Miles to Freedom: The Robert Smalls Story
by Janet Halfmann and Duane Smith
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: History, Science
- Lexile: 870
- Year Published: 2008
What the World Eats
by Faith D'Aluisio and Peter Menzel
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: Social Studies
- Lexile: 1150
- Year Published: 2008
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