Collection Analysis Report
for Battle of the Books 2021 - Grade 3
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.)
- English Language Arts (7 books)
- History (5 books)
- Nonfiction (5 books)
- Biography (3 books)
- Picture Book (3 books)
- Realistic Fiction (3 books)
- Science (3 books)
- STEAM (2 books)
- Social Studies (2 books)
- Historical Fiction (1 books)
- Horror (1 books)
- Science Fiction / Fantasy (1 books)
Genre, Curricular, and Cultural Experience categories are assigned by TeachingBooks based on professional reviews, authoritative sources, and company guidelines.
Quantitative Measures
For 10 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: 786 (Range: 590 - 1050)
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 3 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
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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.
- 21 Videos
- 7 Book Readings
- 43 Lesson Plans
- Total of 189 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on "Battle of the Books 2021 - Grade 3". 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/qlC8IZ7
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus
by Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History
- Lexile: 590
- Year Published: 2014
The Ghost of Fossil Glen
- Genres: Horror, Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 710
- Year Published: 1998
Because of Winn-Dixie
- Grades Used: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 670
- Year Published: 2000
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
Phineas L. Macguire...Erupts!: The First Experiment
by Frances O'Roark Dowell and Preston McDaniels
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, Science
- Lexile: 810
- Year Published: 2006
Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11
by Brian Floca
- Grades Used: 6
- Genres: Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: Science, STEAM
- Lexile: 830
- Year Published: 2009
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Slightly Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Exceedingly Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Very Complex
- Sentence Structure: Very Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Moderately Complex
- Intertextuality: Moderately Complex
A Handful of Stars
by Cynthia Lord
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 690
- Year Published: 2015
Sarah, Plain and Tall
- Grades Used: 2, 3, 4, 5
- Genres: Historical Fiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 650
- Year Published: 1985
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
Nurse, Soldier, Spy: The Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War Hero
by Marissa Moss and John Hendrix
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History
- Lexile: 820
- Year Published: 2011
I Am Helen Keller
by Grace Norwich and Mark Elliott and
Book 3 of the I Am Series
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction
- Cultural Experiences: Disability
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 1040
- Year Published: 2012
River of Dreams: The Story of the Hudson River
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: History, Science, STEAM
- Lexile: 1050
- Year Published: 2009
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