Collection Analysis Report
for Back to School 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 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 (14 books)
- Picture Book (12 books)
- Humor (4 books)
- Realistic Fiction (3 books)
- Beginning / Early Reader (2 books)
- Social Studies (2 books)
- Adventure (1 books)
- Art (1 books)
- Concept Book (1 books)
- Graphic Novel (1 books)
- Health (1 books)
- STEAM (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 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: 548 (Range: 450 - 720)
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 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.
- 25 Videos
- 7 Book Readings
- 18 Lesson Plans
- Total of 156 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on School Library Journal's "Back to School 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/QLRO4ID
The Buddy Bench
by Patty Brozo and Mike Deas
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 520
- Year Published: 2019
The Buddy Bench
by Gwendolyn Hooks and Shirley Ng-Benitez and Shirley Ng-Benitez
Book 8 of the Confetti Kids Series
- Genres: Beginning / Early Reader, Realistic Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2019
Butterflies on the First Day of School
by Annie Silvestro and Dream Chen
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 540
- Year Published: 2019
Clothesline Clues to the First Day of School
by Kathryn Heling, Deborah Hembrook, and Andy Robert Davies
- Genres: Concept Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2019
Even Monsters Go to School
by Lisa Wheeler and Chris Van Dusen
- Genres: Humor, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2019
Hooray for the First Day of School!
by Robin Mellom and Vanessa Brantley-Newton
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2019
If I Built a School
- Genres: Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, STEAM
- Lexile: 610
- Year Published: 2019
The King of Kindergarten
by Derrick Barnes and Vanessa Brantley-Newton
- Genres: Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 720
- Year Published: 2019
My Teacher Is a Robot
- Genres: Humor, Graphic Novel, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 510
- Year Published: 2019
The Pigeon HAS to Go to School!
Part of the Pigeon Series, The
- Genres: Humor, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts
- Lexile: 450
- Year Published: 2019
Pirates Don't Go to Kindergarten!
by Lisa Robinson and Eda Kaban
- Genres: Adventure, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 540
- Year Published: 2019
The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family
by Ibtihaj Muhammad, Hatem Aly, and S.K. Ali
- Grades Used: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
- Genres: Picture Book, Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: Gender, Muslim, Women / Girls
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Health, Social Studies
- Lexile: 500
- Year Published: 2019
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
The School Book
by Todd Parr
- Genres: Beginning / Early Reader, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2019
Unicorn Is Maybe Not So Great After All
by Bob Shea
- Genres: Humor, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2019
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