Collection Analysis Report
for HCS 12th Grade Recommended 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 15 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.
(15 of 15 titles have genres, curricular, or cultural experiences.)
- English Language Arts (15 books)
- Poetry (8 books)
- Historical Fiction (6 books)
- Fairy Tales / Folklore (4 books)
- Horror (4 books)
- Science Fiction / Fantasy (4 books)
- Social Studies (3 books)
- Adventure (2 books)
- Drama (2 books)
- History (2 books)
- Nonfiction (2 books)
- Health (1 books)
- Humor (1 books)
- Science (1 books)
Genre, Curricular, and Cultural Experience categories are assigned by TeachingBooks based on professional reviews, authoritative sources, and company guidelines.
Quantitative Measures
For 7 of 15 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: 1067 (Range: 810 - 1390)
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 9 of 15 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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- 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.
- 101 Videos
- 36 Book Readings
- 184 Lesson Plans
- Total of 322 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on "HCS 12th Grade Recommended 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/QLUTDMH
Shakespeare's Sonnets
- Genres: Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1609
The World is Too Much with Us
by William Wordsworth
- Genres: Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: Unknown
The Lady of Shalott
by Alfred Tennyson and Geneviève Côté
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1833
Gulliver's Travels
- Genres: Adventure, Humor, Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Social Studies
- Lexile: 1150
- Year Published: 1906
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Grades Used: 10, 11, 12
- Genres: Historical Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 890
- Year Published: 1886
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Exceedingly Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Exceedingly Complex
- Vocabulary: Exceedingly Complex
- Sentence Structure: Exceedingly Complex
- Life Experiences: Exceedingly Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
- Grades Used: 11, 12
- Genres: Horror, Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 1020
- Year Published: 1897
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Exceedingly Complex
- Text Organization: Exceedingly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Slightly Complex
- Conventionality: Exceedingly Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Exceedingly Complex
- Life Experiences: Exceedingly Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Exceedingly Complex
Le Morte D'Arthur
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Historical Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1994
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2001
The Canterbury Tales
- Grades Used: 11, 12
- Genres: Historical Fiction, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 1478
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Exceedingly Complex
- Text Organization: Exceedingly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Moderately Complex
- Conventionality: Exceedingly Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Very Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
Macbeth
- Grades Used: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
- Genres: Drama, Historical Fiction, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 1350
- Year Published: 1606
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Very Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Very Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
Hamlet
- Grades Used: 10, 11, 12
- Genres: Drama, Historical Fiction, Horror, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 1390
- Year Published: 1602
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Exceedingly Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Slightly Complex
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Very Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
Frankenstein
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Grades Used: 10, 11, 12
- Genres: Horror, Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 810
- Year Published: 1818
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Very Complex
- Text Organization: Exceedingly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Slightly Complex
- Conventionality: Very Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Exceedingly Complex
- Life Experiences: Very Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Very Complex
Grendel
by John Gardner and Emil Antonucci
- Grades Used: 11, 12
- Genres: Fairy Tales / Folklore
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 860
- Year Published: 1989
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Exceedingly Complex
- Text Organization: Exceedingly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Exceedingly Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Very Complex
- Life Experiences: Exceedingly Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Exceedingly Complex
Beowulf
by Anonymous
- Grades Used: 9, 10, 12
- Genres: Adventure, Fairy Tales / Folklore, Historical Fiction, Poetry
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Slightly Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Life Experiences: Moderately Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
- Grades Used: 11, 12
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Health, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2013
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Very Complex
- Use of Visual Features: N/A
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Very Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Moderately Complex
- Intertextuality: Very Complex
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