Collection Analysis Report
for Weather Picture Books - Gr K-3
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 16 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.
(16 of 16 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- English Language Arts (15 books)
- HASH(0x55c524353ed0) (12 books)
- Science (9 books)
- HASH(0x55c524206e98) (3 books)
- HASH(0x55c5241cae00) (2 books)
- HASH(0x55c5244ca8f8) (2 books)
- HASH(0x55c5222b0e30) (1 books)
- HASH(0x55c52251aaf8) (1 books)
- HASH(0x55c522c78608) (1 books)
- HASH(0x55c524107a68) (1 books)
- HASH(0x55c524213a40) (1 books)
- HASH(0x55c524226d98) (1 books)
- HASH(0x55c52435f338) (1 books)
- HASH(0x55c524528ed8) (1 books)
- Music (1 books)
- STEAM (1 books)
- Social Studies (1 books)
Genre, Curricular, and Cultural Experience categories are assigned by TeachingBooks based on professional reviews, authoritative sources, and company guidelines.
Quantitative Measures
For 12 of 16 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: 470 (Range: 240 - 640)
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 16 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.
- 39 Videos
- 19 Book Readings
- 39 Lesson Plans
- Total of 224 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on NYC Department of Education Library Services's "Weather Picture Books - Gr K-3". 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/QLCJW77
Blizzard
by John Rocco
- Genres: Picture Book, Sports
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 570
- Year Published: 2014
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for BlizzardBlue on Blue
by Dianne White and Beth Krommes
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: 280
- Year Published: 2014
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Blue on BlueCloudette
- Genres: Humor, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: 590
- Year Published: 2011
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for CloudetteFirefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems
by Paul B. Janeczko and Melissa Sweet
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2014
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Firefly JulyFlora's Very Windy Day
by Jeanne Birdsall and Matt Phelan
- Genres: Humor, Picture Book, Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 520
- Year Published: 2010
The Grasshopper & the Ants
- Grades Used: k
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Music, Science
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2015
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Very Complex
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Moderately Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
Little Bird Takes a Bath
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 500
- Year Published: 2015
No Two Alike
by Keith Baker
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: 330
- Year Published: 2011
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for No Two AlikeOtis and the Tornado
Part of the Otis the Tractor Series
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 640
- Year Published: 2011
Rain!
by Linda Ashman and Christian Robinson
- Genres: Picture Book, Realistic Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2013
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Rain!Raindrops Roll
- Genres: Concept Book, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: Science, STEAM
- Lexile: 560
- Year Published: 2015
The Snowy Day
- Grades Used: pk, k, 1, 2
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: 500
- Year Published: 1962
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Moderately Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
A Storm Called Katrina
by Myron Uhlberg and Colin Bootman
- Genres: Adventure, Historical Fiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 540
- Year Published: 2011
Supertruck
- Genres: Beginning / Early Reader
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies
- Lexile: 370
- Year Published: 2015
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for SupertruckTap Tap Boom Boom
by Elizabeth Bluemle and G. Brian Karas
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2014
When the Wind Blows
by Linda Booth Sweeney and Jana Christy
- Genres: Picture Book, Realistic Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: 240
- Year Published: 2015
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