Collection Analysis Report
for Grade 6: Alternative 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 21 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.
(21 of 21 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- English Language Arts (14 books)
- Nonfiction (8 books)
- Picture Book (8 books)
- Social Studies (7 books)
- History (6 books)
- Science (5 books)
- Historical Fiction (4 books)
- Art (3 books)
- Biography (3 books)
- Fairy Tales / Folklore (3 books)
- Realistic Fiction (2 books)
- Science Fiction / Fantasy (2 books)
- Spanish (2 books)
- Adventure (1 books)
- Drama (1 books)
- Health (1 books)
- Humor (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 20 of 21 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: 810 (Range: 610 - 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 9 of 21 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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- 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.
- 16 Videos
- 14 Book Readings
- 29 Lesson Plans
- Total of 279 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on "Grade 6: Alternative 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/QLI82J4
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
by Verna Aardema, Leo Dillon, and Diane Dillon
- Grades Used: pk, k, 1, 3, 4
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: African, African (Global)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 770
- Year Published: 1975
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: Moderately Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
Encounter
by Jane Yolen and David Shannon
- Grades Used: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- Genres: Historical Fiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: History
- Lexile: 620
- Year Published: 1992
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
Acting Out
by Susan Cooper, Patricia MacLachlan, Katherine Paterson, and Richard Peck
- Genres: Drama, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: Art, English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2008
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Acting OutChato's Kitchen
by Gary Soto and Susan Guevara
- Grades Used: pk, k, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Genres: Humor
- Cultural Experiences: Latino/a/e/x (Global), Latino (US / Canada)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Spanish
- Lexile: 740
- Year Published: 1995
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: Moderately Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
The Devil's Arithmetic
by Jane Yolen
- Grades Used: 6
- Genres: Historical Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: Jewish
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 730
- Year Published: 1988
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Very Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
Breaking Through
- Grades Used: 8, 9
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction
- Cultural Experiences: Immigrant / Refugee, Latino/a/e/x (Global), Latino (US / Canada)
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Spanish, Social Studies
- Lexile: 750
- Year Published: 2003
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Moderately Complex
- Intertextuality: Very Complex
Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast
by Jane Yolen
- Genres: Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 760
- Year Published: 2001
Twenty-Two Cents: The Story of Muhammad Yunus
by Paula Yoo and Jamel Akib
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Cultural Experiences: South Asian, Muslim, Asian, Asian (Global)
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 1010
- Year Published: 2014
Barbed Wire Baseball
by Marissa Moss and Yuko Shimizu
- Genres: Nonfiction, Picture Book, Sports
- Cultural Experiences: Asian American, Asian (Global)
- Curricular Areas: History, Physical Education
- Lexile: 800
- Year Published: 2013
Every Living Thing: Stories
by Cynthia Rylant and S.D. Schindler
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Health, Science
- Lexile: 870
- Year Published: 1985
Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya
by Donna Jo Napoli and Kadir Nelson
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: Science
- Lexile: 610
- Year Published: 2010
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Mama MitiDolphins
Part of the Seymour Simon Science Series
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: Science
- Lexile: 1040
- Year Published: 2009
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for DolphinsGhost Train
by Paul Yee and Harvey Chan
- Genres: Historical Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Art, Social Studies
- Lexile: 740
- Year Published: 1996
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Ghost TrainNothing Ever Happens on 90th Street
by Roni Schotter and Kyrsten Brooker
- Grades Used: 2, 3, 4
- Genres: Realistic Fiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 670
- Year Published: 1997
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Slightly Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Slightly Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Moderately Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Slightly Complex
Volcano Rising
by Elizabeth Rusch and Susan Swan
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: Science
- Lexile: 1090
- Year Published: 2013
An Elephant in the Garden
- Grades Used: 6, 7, 8
- Genres: Historical Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Science, Social Studies
- Lexile: 890
- Year Published: 2011
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
The Wretched Stone
- Grades Used: 4, 5, 6
- Genres: Adventure, Science Fiction / Fantasy, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Art
- Lexile: 730
- Year Published: 1991
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Very Complex
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Very Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
Feathers and Fools
by Mem Fox and Nicholas Wilton
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 960
- Year Published: 1996
Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories
by Ellen Levine
- Grades Used: 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 760
- Year Published: 1993
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
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Moderately Complex
- Intertextuality: Moderately Complex
America Street: A Multicultural Anthology of Stories
by Anne Mazer
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 870
- Year Published: 1993
Why the Sky Is Far Away: A Nigerian Folktale
by Mary-Joan Gerson and Carla Golembe
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 800
- Year Published: 1974
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