Collection Analysis Report
for Guns and Violence in America, Gr. 10-12
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 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.)
- English Language Arts (5 books)
- Realistic Fiction (5 books)
- Social Studies (4 books)
- Nonfiction (3 books)
- History (2 books)
Genre, Curricular, and Cultural Experience categories are assigned by TeachingBooks based on professional reviews, authoritative sources, and company guidelines.
Quantitative Measures
For 6 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: 773 (Range: 560 - 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 3 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
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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.
- 24 Videos
- 9 Book Readings
- 19 Lesson Plans
- Total of 195 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on NYC Department of Education Library Services's "Guns and Violence in America, Gr. 10-12". 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/QLVN7MA
All American Boys
by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
- Grades Used: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 770
- Year Published: 2015
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Exceedingly Complex
- Text Organization: Very Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
Columbine
by Dave Cullen
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 760
- Year Published: 2009
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for ColumbineGhettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
by Jill Leovy
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2015
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for GhettosideHow It Went Down
by Kekla Magoon
- Grades Used: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 560
- Year Published: 2014
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Exceedingly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
Taking Aim: Power and Pain, Teens and Guns
by Michael Cart, Marc Aronson, Edward Averett, and Francesca Lia Block
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2015
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Taking AimThis Is Where It Ends
- Grades Used: 10, 11, 12
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: LGBTQ+
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 630
- Year Published: 2016
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Exceedingly Complex
- Text Organization: Exceedingly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Very Complex
- Life Experiences: Exceedingly Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
Tommy: The Gun That Changed America
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: History
- Lexile: 1180
- Year Published: 2015
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for TommyViolent Ends
by Shaun David Hutchinson, Neal Shusterman, Beth Revis, and E.M. Kokie
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 740
- Year Published: 2015
Qualitative Measures:
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