Collection Analysis Report
for Battle of the Books 2021 - Grade 4
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 (8 books)
- History (4 books)
- Humor (4 books)
- Nonfiction (3 books)
- Social Studies (3 books)
- Biography (2 books)
- Historical Fiction (2 books)
- Realistic Fiction (2 books)
- Graphic Novel (1 books)
- Picture Book (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 9 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: 764 (Range: 570 - 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 6 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.
- 60 Videos
- 19 Book Readings
- 44 Lesson Plans
- Total of 287 resources
Details for Each Book
Below are the titles on "Battle of the Books 2021 - Grade 4". 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/QLGTCXT
The One and Only Ivan
by Katherine Applegate and Patricia Castelao and
Book 1 of the Ivan and Friends Series
- Grades Used: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9
- Genres: Humor
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 570
- Year Published: 2012
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
El Deafo
by Cece Bell
- Grades Used: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
- Genres: Humor, Graphic Novel
- Cultural Experiences: Disability
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: Unknown
- Year Published: 2014
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Very Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Slightly Complex
- Life Experiences: Moderately Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Moderately Complex
Frindle
by Andrew Clements and Brian Selznick
- Grades Used: 3, 4, 5, 6
- Genres: Humor
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 830
- Year Published: 1996
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Moderately Complex
- Text Organization: Moderately Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Slightly Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Slightly Complex
- Life Experiences: Moderately Complex
- Cultural Knowledge: Slightly Complex
Out of My Mind
Book 1 of the Out of My Mind Trilogy
- Grades Used: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: Disability
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 700
- Year Published: 2010
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 Amazing Impossible Erie Canal
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: History, Science
- Lexile: 1050
- Year Published: 1995
Those Rebels, John & Tom
by Barbara Kerley and Edwin Fotheringham
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Picture Book
- Curricular Areas: History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 960
- Year Published: 2012
Bird in a Box
by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Sean Qualls
- Genres: Historical Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: African (Global), African American
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 670
- Year Published: 2011
Yellow Star
by Jennifer Roy
- Genres: Historical Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: Jewish
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts, History, Social Studies
- Lexile: 710
- Year Published: 2006
Qualitative Measures:
View all instructional resources and text complexity results for Yellow StarKnucklehead: Tall Tales and Almost True Stories of Growing Up Scieszka
by Jon Scieszka
- Grades Used: 3, 4
- Genres: Biography, Humor, Nonfiction
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 750
- Year Published: 2008
Qualitative Measures:
- Meaning: Slightly Complex
- Text Organization: Slightly Complex
- Use of Visual Features: Slightly Complex
- Conventionality: Moderately Complex
- Vocabulary: Moderately Complex
- Sentence Structure: Moderately Complex
- Subject Matter Knowledge: Moderately Complex
- Intertextuality: Moderately Complex
Front Desk
by Kelly Yang
Book 1 of the Front Desk Series
- Grades Used: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- Genres: Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experiences: Asian American, Asian (Global), Immigrant / Refugee
- Curricular Areas: English Language Arts
- Lexile: 640
- Year Published: 2018
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: Very Complex
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