Collection Analysis Report
for Brown Boy 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 7 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.
(7 of 7 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- English Language Arts (7 books)
- Picture Book (7 books)
- Realistic Fiction (3 books)
- Art (1 books)
- Fairy Tales / Folklore (1 books)
- Historical Fiction (1 books)
- Music (1 books)
- Physical Education (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 4 of 7 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: 632 (Range: 490 - 780)
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 |
Key: Purple highlight represents average.
Source: National Governors Association for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers.[1]
Qualitative Measures (BETA)
For 1 of 7 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.
- 11 Videos
- 4 Book Readings
- 5 Lesson Plans
- Total of 78 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Brown Boy Genius's "Brown Boy 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/QLI266M
The Bat Boy and His Violin
by Gavin Curtis and E.B. Lewis
- Grades Used: k, 1, 2
- Genres: Picture Book, Sports
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts, Music, Physical Education
- Lexile: 780
- Year Published: 1998
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Moderately Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
Brothers of the Knight
by Debbie Allen, Toby Sherry, and Kadir Nelson
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 720
- Year Published: 1999
Full, Full, Full of Love
by Trish Cooke and Paul Howard
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2003
My Cold Plum Lemon Pie Bluesy Mood
by Tameka Fryer Brown and Shane W. Evans
- Genres: Picture Book, Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2013
The New Small Person
by Lauren Child
- Genres: Picture Book, Realistic Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 490
- Year Published: 2015
Peekaboo Morning
- Genres: Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2002
Ron's Big Mission
by Rose Blue, Corinne J. Naden, and Don Tate
- Genres: Historical Fiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 540
- Year Published: 2009
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