Collection Analysis Report
for National Jazz Appreciation Month
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 17 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.
(17 of 17 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- Music (17 books)
- Picture Book (12 books)
- Nonfiction (10 books)
- Biography (9 books)
- English Language Arts (9 books)
- History (5 books)
- Art (2 books)
- Beginning / Early Reader (2 books)
- Social Studies (2 books)
- Historical Fiction (1 books)
- Poetry (1 books)
- STEAM (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 13 of 17 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: 720 (Range: 260 - 1090)
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 5 of 17 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
- Slightly
- Moderately
- Very
- Exceedingly
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
- 10 Book Readings
- 31 Lesson Plans
- Total of 268 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on Barbershop Books!'s "National Jazz Appreciation Month". 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/QLYVIPM
Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane
by Carole Boston Weatherford and Sean Qualls
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: Music
- Lexile: 1090
- Year Published: 2008
Charlie Parker Played Be Bop
- Grades Used: k, 1, 2
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Music
- Lexile: 260
- Year Published: 1992
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Slightly Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Very Complex
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Slightly Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Very Complex
- Intertextuality: Very Complex
The Cosmobiography of Sun Ra: The Sound of Joy Is Enlightening
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: Music
- Lexile: 1000
- Year Published: 2014
Dizzy
by Jonah Winter and Sean Qualls
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Music
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2006
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for DizzyIf I Only Had a Horn: Young Louis Armstrong
by Roxane Orgill and Leonard Jenkins
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: History, Music
- Lexile: 860
- Year Published: 1997
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 Baby
by Lisa Wheeler and R. Gregory Christie
- Genres: Beginning / Early Reader, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Music, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2007
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Jazz BabyJazz on a Saturday Night
by Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: Art, Music
- Lexile: 580
- Year Published: 2007
Little Melba and Her Big Trombone
by Katheryn Russell-Brown and Frank Morrison
- Grades Used: 1, 2
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global), Gender, Women / Girls
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Music
- Lexile: 780
- Year Published: 2014
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Very Complex
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Very Complex
- Intertextuality: Exceedingly Complex
The Little Piano Girl: The Story of Mary Lou Williams, Jazz Legend
by Ann Ingalls, Maryann Macdonald, and Giselle Potter
- Genres: Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: History, Music
- Lexile: 690
- Year Published: 2009
Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American, Disability
- Curricular Areas: History, Music, STEAM
- Lexile: 750
- Year Published: 2008
Rent Party Jazz
by William Miller and Charlotte Riley-Webb
- Grades Used: 6
- Genres: Historical Fiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Music
- Lexile: 820
- Year Published: 2001
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Exceedingly Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Very Complex
- Life Experiences: Moderately Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Exceedingly Complex
Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat: Ella Fitzgerald
by Roxane Orgill and Sean Qualls
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: History, Music
- Lexile: 820
- Year Published: 2010
Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Whomp!: A Sonic Adventure
by Wynton Marsalis and Paul Rogers
- Genres: Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Music
- Lexile: 460
- Year Published: 2012
Sweet Music in Harlem
by Debbie A. Taylor and Frank Morrison
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Music
- Lexile: 630
- Year Published: 2004
This Jazz Man
by Karen Ehrhardt and R.G. Roth
- Genres: Beginning / Early Reader
- Cultural Experiences: African American, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Music
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2006
Tito Puente, Mambo King / Tito Puente, rey del mambo
by Monica Brown and Rafael López
- Grades Used: pk, k, 1, 2, 3, 4
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: Latino/a/e/x (Global), Latino (US / Canada)
- Curricular Areas: Music, Spanish, Social Studies
- Lexile: 620
- Year Published: 2013
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Slightly Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Slightly Complex
- Intertextuality: Moderately Complex
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