Collection Analysis Report
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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 17 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.
(17 of 17 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- English Language Arts (12 books)
- HASH(0x563ae427d7b8) (10 books)
- Art (7 books)
- HASH(0x563ae497ed80) (7 books)
- STEAM (7 books)
- Science (6 books)
- History (5 books)
- HASH(0x563ae4db5380) (4 books)
- Social Studies (4 books)
- HASH(0x563ae4bb0c88) (2 books)
- HASH(0x563ae54833d8) (2 books)
- Health (2 books)
- HASH(0x563ae43d2f18) (1 books)
- HASH(0x563ae493aa68) (1 books)
- HASH(0x563ae55daf18) (1 books)
- HASH(0x563ae5680a08) (1 books)
- HASH(0x563ae56c8678) (1 books)
- HASH(0x563ae59628b0) (1 books)
- Physical Education (1 books)
Genre, Curricular, and Cultural Experience categories are assigned by TeachingBooks based on professional reviews, authoritative sources, and company guidelines.
Quantitative Measures
For 15 of 17 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: 771 (Range: 380 - 1180)
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 |
Key: Purple highlight represents average.
Source: National Governors Association for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers.[1]
Qualitative Measures (BETA)
For 4 of 17 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.
- 17 Videos
- 6 Book Readings
- 23 Lesson Plans
- Total of 227 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on TeachingBooks.net's "Makerspace". 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/QL2VOXZ
Adventures in Cartooning
by James Sturm, Andrew Arnold, and Alexis Frederick-Frost
- Genres: Graphic Novel, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, STEAM
- Lexile: 460
- Year Published: 2009
Ashley Bryan's Puppets: Making Something from Everything
by Ashley Bryan
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Nonfiction
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American, African
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2014
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Picture Book Adaptation)
by William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer, and Elizabeth Zunon
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, STEAM
- Lexile: 850
- Year Published: 2012
Carver: A Life in Poems
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Poetry
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: History
- Lexile: 890
- Year Published: 2001
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for CarverDrawing Words & Writing Pictures: Making Comics: Manga, Graphic Novels, and Beyond
by Jessica Abel and Matt Madden
- Genres: Graphic Novel, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts, STEAM
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2008
Go: A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design
by Chip Kidd
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: Art, STEAM
- Lexile: 1100
- Year Published: 2013
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for GoGus and Button
by Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Health, Art
- Lexile: 650
- Year Published: 2001
Hands
by Lois Ehlert
- Genres: Sports
- Curricular Areas: Physical Education, Science
- Lexile: 540
- Year Published: 1997
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for HandsThe Mad Potter: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius
by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: Art, History, Social Studies, STEAM
- Lexile: 1070
- Year Published: 2013
Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Science
- Lexile: 720
- Year Published: 2006
The Most Magnificent Thing
- Genres: Humor, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts, STEAM
- Lexile: 380
- Year Published: 2014
Papa's Mechanical Fish
by Candace Fleming and Boris Kulikov
- Grades Used: 1, 2
- Genres: Historical Fiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Science
- Lexile: 480
- Year Published: 2013
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Slightly Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
So You Want to Be an Inventor?
by Judith St. George and David Small
- Grades Used: 3, 4
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies, STEAM
- Lexile: 910
- Year Published: 2002
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Slightly Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Slightly Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Moderately Complex
- Intertextuality: Moderately Complex
Uh-Oh, Leonardo!: The Adventures of Providence Traveler
- Genres: Picture Book, Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts, History, Science, Social Studies
- Lexile: 760
- Year Published: 2003
Weslandia
by Paul Fleischman and Kevin Hawkes
- Grades Used: 3, 4, 5
- Genres: Picture Book, Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 820
- Year Published: 1999
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
Whirligig
- Grades Used: 8
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Health
- Lexile: 760
- Year Published: 1998
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Exceedingly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Very Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
Zoobots: Wild Robots Inspired by Real Animals
by Helaine Becker and Alex Ries
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: Science
- Lexile: 1180
- Year Published: 2014
Qualitative Measures:
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