Collection Analysis Report
for Social Science, Gr. 6-8: Geography
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 14 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.
(14 of 14 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- English Language Arts (9 books)
- Social Studies (9 books)
- Nonfiction (8 books)
- Science (5 books)
- Adventure (2 books)
- History (2 books)
- Poetry (2 books)
- Realistic Fiction (2 books)
- Historical Fiction (1 books)
- STEAM (1 books)
- Science Fiction / Fantasy (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 12 of 14 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: 915 (Range: 590 - 1230)
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 |
11-12 | 1185-1385 | 11.20-14.10 | 67-74 | 10.34-14.20 | Z+ | 9.57-12.00 | 12.30-14.50 |
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 14 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.
- 4 Videos
- 6 Book Readings
- 16 Lesson Plans
- Total of 135 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Chicago Public Schools's "Social Science, Gr. 6-8: Geography". 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/ql2U3IB
The Cities Book
by Heather Carswell, Bridget Gleeson, and Patrick Kinsella
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: Social Studies
- Lexile: 1140
- Year Published: 2016
Climate Migrants: On the Move in a Warming World
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Cultural Experiences: Immigrant / Refugee
- Curricular Areas: Social Studies
- Lexile: 1230
- Year Published: 2017
Iron Rails, Iron Men, and the Race to Link the Nation: The Story of the Transcontinental Railroad
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 1230
- Year Published: 2015
Listen, Slowly
by Thanhhà Lại
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: Immigrant / Refugee, Asian, Asian American, Asian (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 800
- Year Published: 2015
The New 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth
by Michele Montez and Lorraine Bodger
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2009
Peak
by Roland Smith
- Genres: Adventure, Sports
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: 760
- Year Published: 2007
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for PeakSerafina's Promise
by Ann E. Burg
- Genres: Poetry, Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), Immigrant / Refugee, Latino/a/e/x (Global), Latino (Latin America)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 590
- Year Published: 2013
Ship Breaker
- Grades Used: 6, 8, 9, 10, 11
- Genres: Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: 690
- Year Published: 2010
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Slightly Complex
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Very Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
The Sign of the Beaver
- Grades Used: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
- Genres: Historical Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 770
- Year Published: 1983
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science
by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos
- Grades Used: 7, 8, 9
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 1130
- Year Published: 2010
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Very Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Very Complex
- Intertextuality: Moderately Complex
Trash Talk: Moving Toward a Zero-Waste World
by Michelle Mulder Michelle Mulder
Part of the Orca Footprints Series
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, STEAM
- Lexile: 1050
- Year Published: 2015
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Trash TalkUp from the Sea
by Leza Lowitz
- Genres: Adventure, Poetry
- Cultural Experiences: Multiracial / Mixed Race, Asian, Asian (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 750
- Year Published: 2016
Voices from the Fields: Children of Migrant Farmworkers Tell Their Stories
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Cultural Experiences: Latino/a/e/x (Global), Latino (US / Canada)
- Curricular Areas: Social Studies
- Lexile: 850
- Year Published: 1993
What's Really Happening to Our Planet?
by Tony Juniper
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: Science
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2016
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