Collection Analysis Report
for Diverse Poetry Picture Books
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 21 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.
(21 of 21 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- Picture Book (21 books)
- English Language Arts (18 books)
- Poetry (18 books)
- Nonfiction (14 books)
- Art (6 books)
- Biography (3 books)
- Music (3 books)
- Social Studies (3 books)
- Humor (2 books)
- Science (2 books)
- Spanish (2 books)
- Sports (2 books)
- Beginning / Early Reader (1 books)
- Health (1 books)
- History (1 books)
- Math (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 5 of 21 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: 660 (Range: 490 - 1150)
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 2 of 21 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.
- 21 Videos
- 19 Book Readings
- 27 Lesson Plans
- Total of 351 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Brightly's "Diverse Poetry Picture Books". 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/QLGTZ66
All the Colors of the Earth
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 540
- Year Published: 1994
The Blacker the Berry: Poems
by Joyce Carol Thomas and Floyd Cooper
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2008
Bravo!: Poems about Amazing Hispanics
by Margarita Engle and Rafael López
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Latino/a/e/x (Global), Latino (Latin America), Latino (US / Canada)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Spanish
- Lexile: 1150
- Year Published: 2017
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Bravo!Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea
by Joyce Carol Thomas and Floyd Cooper
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: Art
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1993
Coconut Kind of Day: Island Poems
by Lynn Joseph and Sandra Speidel
- Genres: Poetry, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1990
Feel the Beat: Dance Poems That Zing from Salsa to Swing
by Marilyn Singer and Kristi Valiant
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry, Sports, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Music, Physical Education
- Lexile: 490
- Year Published: 2017
Fresh-Picked Poetry: A Day at the Farmers' Market
by Michelle Schaub and Amy Huntington
- Genres: Humor, Nonfiction, Poetry, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2016
A Full Moon Is Rising
by Marilyn Singer and Julia Cairns
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2011
Haiti My Country: Poems by Haitian Schoolchildren
by Haitian Schoolchildren and Rogé
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), Latino/a/e/x (Global), Latino (Latin America)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2014
Honey, I Love
by Eloise Greenfield and Jan Spivey Gilchrist
- Genres: Beginning / Early Reader, Nonfiction, Poetry, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2003
In the Land of Milk and Honey
by Joyce Carol Thomas and Floyd Cooper
- Genres: Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2012
Jazz
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
Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph
by Roxane Orgill and Francis Vallejo
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Poetry, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts, Music
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2016
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Jazz DayKeep a Pocket in Your Poem: Classic Poems and Playful Parodies
by J. Patrick Lewis and Johanna Wright
- Genres: Humor, Nonfiction, Poetry, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 630
- Year Published: 2017
La Madre Goose: Nursery Rhymes for Los Ninos
by Susan Middleton Elya and Juana Martinez-Neal
- Genres: Poetry, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Latino/a/e/x (Global), Latino (US / Canada)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Spanish
- Lexile: 490
- Year Published: 2016
My Chinatown: One Year in Poems
by Kam Mak
- Genres: Poetry, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Immigrant / Refugee, Asian American, Asian (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2002
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for My ChinatownOne Leaf Rides the Wind
by Celeste Davidson Mannis and Susan Kathleen Hartung
- Grades Used: 2, 3, 4
- Genres: Nonfiction, Picture Book, Poetry
- Cultural Experiences: Asian (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Math
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2002
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately 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: Moderately Complex
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets
by Kwame Alexander, Chris Colderley, Marjory Wentworth, and Ekua Holmes
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Poetry, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2017
A Stick Is an Excellent Thing: Poems Celebrating Outdoor Play
by Marilyn Singer and LeUyen Pham
- Genres: Nonfiction, Picture Book, Poetry, Sports
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Health
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2012
The Sun Is So Quiet
by Nikki Giovanni and Ashley Bryan
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: Art
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1996
Tan to Tamarind: Poems about the Color Brown
by Malathi Michelle Iyengar and Jamel Akib
- Genres: Poetry, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), South Asian, Asian, Asian American, Asian (Global)
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2009
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