Collection Analysis Report
for Poetry, 6-12
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 23 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.
(23 of 23 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- English Language Arts (23 books)
- Poetry (22 books)
- Nonfiction (16 books)
- Social Studies (11 books)
- History (8 books)
- Biography (5 books)
- Picture Book (4 books)
- Realistic Fiction (3 books)
- Art (2 books)
- Historical Fiction (2 books)
- Music (2 books)
- Drama (1 books)
- Physical Education (1 books)
- STEAM (1 books)
- Science (1 books)
- Spanish (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 7 of 23 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: 905 (Range: 650 - 1240)
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 7 of 23 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.
- 38 Videos
- 27 Book Readings
- 33 Lesson Plans
- Total of 445 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)'s "Poetry, 6-12". 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/QLGF923
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
- Cultural Experiences: Immigrant / Refugee, Middle Eastern
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 910
- Year Published: 2002
Birmingham, 1963
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 910
- Year Published: 2007
Blues Journey
by Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Music
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2003
Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888
by Ernest Lawrence Thayer and Joe Morse
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry, Sports
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Physical Education
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2006
Crossing Stones
by Helen Frost
- Genres: Historical Fiction, Poetry, Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: Gender, Women / Girls
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 820
- Year Published: 2009
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village
by Laura Amy Schlitz and Robert Byrd
- Grades Used: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
- Genres: Drama, Historical Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2007
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Slightly Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery
by Cynthia Grady and Michele Wood
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 990
- Year Published: 2011
Indivisible: Poems for Social Justice
by Gail Bush
- Genres: Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2013
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for IndivisibleJazz
by Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers
- Grades Used: 2, 3, 4, 5
- Genres: Picture Book, Poetry
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts, Music
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2008
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Very Complex
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Very Complex
- Life Experiences: Moderately Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
Locomotion
- Grades Used: 4, 5, 6
- Genres: Poetry, Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2004
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Very Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Slightly Complex
October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard
- Grades Used: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
- Genres: Biography, Poetry, Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: LGBTQ+
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2012
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Very Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Very Complex
- Intertextuality: Exceedingly Complex
Partly Cloudy: Poems of Love and Longing
by Gary Soto
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
- Cultural Experiences: Latino/a/e/x (Global), Latino (US / Canada)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2009
Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation
by Brett Fletcher Lauer and Lynn Melnick
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2015
The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano
by Margarita Engle and Sean Qualls
- Grades Used: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Poetry
- Cultural Experiences: Latino/a/e/x (Global), African (Global), Latino (Latin America), Latino (US / Canada)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Spanish, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2006
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Exceedingly Complex
- Text Organization: Exceedingly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Exceedingly Complex
- Vocabulary: Exceedingly Complex
- Sentence Structure: Exceedingly Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Exceedingly Complex
- Intertextuality: Exceedingly Complex
Side by Side: New Poems Inspired by Art from Around the World
- Genres: Poetry
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts, STEAM
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2008
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Side by SideTap Dancing on the Roof: Sijo (Poems)
by Linda Sue Park and Istvan Banyai
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
- Cultural Experiences: Asian, Asian (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 650
- Year Published: 2007
Time You Let Me in: 25 Poets Under 25
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2010
Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors
by Joyce Sidman and Beckie Prange
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: 1240
- Year Published: 2010
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for UbiquitousVoice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
by Carole Boston Weatherford and Ekua Holmes
- Grades Used: 3, 4, 5, 6
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Poetry, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global), Gender, Women / Girls
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 820
- Year Published: 2015
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Very Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Very Complex
- Intertextuality: Very Complex
The Way a Door Closes
by Hope Anita Smith and Shane W. Evans
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2003
We Troubled the Waters
by Ntozake Shange and Rod Brown
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2009
A Wreath for Emmett Till
by Marilyn Nelson and Philippe Lardy
- Grades Used: 11, 12
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Poetry, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2005
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Very Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Very Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Very Complex
- Intertextuality: Exceedingly Complex
Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2007
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