Collection Analysis Report
for Rocky Mountain Award
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 20 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.
(20 of 20 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- English Language Arts (18 books)
- Nonfiction (7 books)
- Social Studies (7 books)
- History (6 books)
- Realistic Fiction (5 books)
- Science (5 books)
- Science Fiction / Fantasy (5 books)
- Adventure (3 books)
- Picture Book (3 books)
- Graphic Novel (2 books)
- Mystery (2 books)
- Poetry (2 books)
- Biography (1 books)
- Fairy Tales / Folklore (1 books)
- Historical Fiction (1 books)
- Horror (1 books)
- Humor (1 books)
- Music (1 books)
- Physical Education (1 books)
- STEAM (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 19 of 20 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: 763 (Range: 210 - 1140)
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 5 of 20 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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- 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.
- 16 Videos
- 10 Book Readings
- 17 Lesson Plans
- Total of 212 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Alberta School Library Council (ASLC)'s "Rocky Mountain Award". 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/QL7FEEA
Awkward
by Svetlana Chmakova Svetlana Chmakova
Book 1 of the Berrybrook Middle School Series, The
- Grades Used: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
- Genres: Graphic Novel, Realistic Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 210
- Year Published: 2015
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Very Complex
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Moderately Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: From Alchemy to Avatars
by Maria Birmingham and Josh Holinaty
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Science, Social Studies
- Lexile: 1100
- Year Published: 2015
The Blackthorn Key
by Kevin Sands
- Genres: Adventure, Mystery, Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 630
- Year Published: 2015
A Boy Asked the Wind
by Barbara Nickel and Gillian Newland
- Genres: Poetry, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies
- Lexile: 1140
- Year Published: 2015
The Cat at the Wall
- Genres: Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 680
- Year Published: 2014
Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War
by Jessica Dee Humphreys, Claudia Dávila, and Michel Chikwanine
- Grades Used: 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
- Genres: Nonfiction, Graphic Novel
- Cultural Experiences: African, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 680
- Year Published: 2015
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Very Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Very Complex
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Very Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Exceedingly Complex
- Intertextuality: Exceedingly Complex
Extreme Battlefields: When War Meets the Forces of Nature
by Tanya Lloyd Kyi and Drew Shannon
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: History
- Lexile: 1000
- Year Published: 2016
Faster, Higher, Smarter: Bright Ideas That Transformed Sports
- Genres: Nonfiction, Sports
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Physical Education
- Lexile: 950
- Year Published: 2016
Friend or Foe
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Music
- Lexile: 620
- Year Published: 2016
Galloping Through History: Amazing True Horse Stories
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History
- Lexile: 1030
- Year Published: 2015
The Gospel Truth
- Genres: Historical Fiction, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History
- Lexile: 630
- Year Published: 2014
Hiawatha and the Peacemaker
by Robbie Robertson and David Shannon
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: American Indian
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 740
- Year Published: 2015
Masterminds
by Gordon Korman Gordon Korman
Book 1 of the Masterminds Series
- Genres: Adventure, Mystery, Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: 730
- Year Published: 2015
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Very Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Very Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Moderately Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
The Nest
by Kenneth Oppel and Jon Klassen
- Grades Used: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
- Genres: Horror, Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Cultural Experiences: Disability
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 640
- Year Published: 2015
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Exceedingly Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
Rain Shadow
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: Disability
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 700
- Year Published: 2014
Qualitative Measures:
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by Linda Bailey
- Genres: Adventure, Humor, Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2015
The Summer We Saved the Bees
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: 580
- Year Published: 2015
That Squeak
by Carolyn Beck and François Thisdale
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 610
- Year Published: 2015
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for That SqueakWe Are All Made of Molecules
- Grades Used: 8
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 710
- Year Published: 2015
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Moderately Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Slightly Complex
What's the Buzz?: Keeping Bees in Flight
by Merrie-Ellen Wilcox Merrie-Ellen Wilcox
Part of the Orca Footprints Series
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, STEAM
- Lexile: 1130
- Year Published: 2015
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