Collection Analysis Report
for Ten Books for Thanksgiving
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.)
- Holiday (10 books)
- English Language Arts (9 books)
- Picture Book (6 books)
- Social Studies (6 books)
- Humor (2 books)
- Nonfiction (2 books)
- Realistic Fiction (2 books)
- Concept Book (1 books)
- History (1 books)
- Math (1 books)
- Poetry (1 books)
- Spanish (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 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: 552 (Range: 470 - 590)
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 |
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 Book Readings
- 5 Lesson Plans
- Total of 46 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Reading Rockets's "Ten Books for Thanksgiving". 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/ql95H6D
1, 2, 3 Thanksgiving!
by W. Nikola-Lisa and Robin Kramer
- Genres: Concept Book, Holiday, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Math, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2005
Fat Chance Thanksgiving
by Patricia Lakin and Stacey Schuett
- Genres: Holiday, Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 580
- Year Published: 2001
Gracias, the Thanksgiving Turkey
by Joy Cowley and Joe Cepeda
- Genres: Holiday
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Spanish
- Lexile: 470
- Year Published: 1996
How Many Days to America?: A Thanksgiving Story
by Eve Bunting and Beth Peck
- Genres: Holiday, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Immigrant / Refugee
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 580
- Year Published: 1988
It's Thanksgiving!
by Jack Prelutsky and Marylin Hafner
- Genres: Holiday, Humor, Nonfiction, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1982
Molly's Pilgrim
by Barbara Cohen and Daniel Duffy
- Grades Used: 1, 2, 3
- Genres: Holiday, Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Immigrant / Refugee, Jewish
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 590
- Year Published: 1990
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Slightly Complex
- Conventionality: Slightly Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Moderately Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
The Squirrels' Thanksgiving
by Steven Kroll and Jeni Bassett
- Genres: Holiday
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1991
The Story of Thanksgiving
by Nancy Skarmeas and Stacy Venturi-Pickett
- Genres: Holiday, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1999
Thanksgiving at the Tappletons'
by Eileen Spinelli and Maryann Cocca-Leffler
- Genres: Holiday, Humor, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2015
A Turkey for Thanksgiving
by Eve Bunting and Diane deGroat
- Genres: Holiday, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 540
- Year Published: 1991
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