Collection Analysis Report
for Nonfiction Mentor Texts
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 10 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.
(10 of 10 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- Nonfiction (9 books)
- History (6 books)
- Science (6 books)
- Biography (4 books)
- Social Studies (3 books)
- Picture Book (2 books)
- Poetry (2 books)
- STEAM (2 books)
- English Language Arts (1 books)
- Health (1 books)
Genre, Curricular, and Cultural Experience categories are assigned by TeachingBooks based on professional reviews, authoritative sources, and company guidelines.
Quantitative Measures
For 8 of 10 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: 812 (Range: 450 - 1310)
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 1 of 10 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.
- 1 Videos
- 11 Book Readings
- 9 Lesson Plans
- Total of 138 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on School Library Journal's "Nonfiction Mentor Texts". 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/QL8OJ9X
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
by Jim Murphy
- Grades Used: 6, 7, 8, 9
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: History, Science
- Lexile: 1130
- Year Published: 2003
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Slightly Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Very Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Very Complex
- Intertextuality: Very Complex
Annie and Helen
by Deborah Hopkinson and Raúl Colón
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Disability
- Curricular Areas: Health, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 800
- Year Published: 2012
Big Blue Whale
by Nicola Davies and Nick Maland
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1997
Carver: A Life in Poems
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Poetry
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: History
- Lexile: 890
- Year Published: 2001
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for CarverFortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2004
Here Come the Humpbacks!
by April Pulley Sayre and Jamie Hogan
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: Science
- Lexile: 790
- Year Published: 2013
Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic
by Robert Burleigh and Wendell Minor
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: History, Science
- Lexile: 500
- Year Published: 2011
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Night FlightTrout Are Made of Trees
by April Pulley Sayre and Kate Endle
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: Science, STEAM
- Lexile: 450
- Year Published: 2008
Who Was First?: Discovering the Americas
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 1310
- Year Published: 2007
The Wolves Are Back
by Jean Craighead George and Wendell Minor
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: Science, STEAM
- Lexile: 630
- Year Published: 2008
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