Born in Columbus, Ohio on February 12, 1963 Jacqueline Woodson is an African American writer of books for children and adolescents. She is best known for Miracle's Boys, which won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2001 and her Newbery Honor titles After Tupac & D Foster, Feathers and Show Way. Her work is filled with strong African-American themes, generally aimed at a young adult audience. She has two children, a daughter named Toshi Georgianna and a son named Jackson-Leroi. 

Woodson has won numerous awards including the Margaret Edwards Award in 2005 and she is U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2014.Woodson was named one of six Andersen Award finalists on March 17, 2014.


Ms. Woodson currently resides in Brooklyn, New York with her family. 


Source: Wikipedia.org
                 JacquelineWoodson.com 

Books Written By Author

Awards Awarded to Jacqueline Woodson: 

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Achievements Awarded Directly to Author:
  • Margaret A Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement
  • St. Katharine Drexel Award
  • 2012 Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Reader’s Literature
After Tupac & D Foster
  • Newbery Honor Medal
  • 2009 Josette Frank Award
Behind You
  • 2005 YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
  • YALSA Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults for 2005
  • New York Public Library Best Book for Teens 2005
  • ALA Best Book for Young Adults
Coming On Home Soon
  • Caldecott Honor
  • ALA Notable 2005
  • Booklist Editor’s Choice
  • Child Magazine Best of 2004
Each Kindness
  • Best Book of 2012 – School Library Journal
Feathers
  • Newbery Honor Medal 
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
  • Coretta Scott King Honor
  • Jane Addams Peace Award Honor Book
Hush
  • National Book Award Finalist
  • 2003 ALA Best Book for Young Adults
  • School Library Journal Best Book
  • 2002 Booklist Editor’s Choice
  • 2003 New York Public Libraries Books for the Teen Age
  • Bank Street Best Children’s Books of the Year (“Today” category / 12 & up)
  • 2003 Riverbank Review Children’s Books of Distinction Short list
  • 2003-2004 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award Master List
  • 2003-2004 Maine Student Book Award Master List
  • 2002 Pennsylvania School Librarians Association Young Adult Top 40 Nominees
  • 2004-2005 Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award Nominee (Grades 6-8) (children’s choice award for Minnesota)
  • 2005 Garden State Teen Book Award Nominee (NJ)
I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This
  • Coretta Scott King Honor
  • Jane Addams Peace Award Honor Book
If You Come Softly
  • ALA Best Book for Young Adults
  • Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book
  • 2005 Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (all readers)
  • 2001 Detroit Public Library Author’s Day Award
Locomotion
  • National Book Award Finalist
  • Coretta Scott King Honor
  • 2003 Boston Globe—Horn Book Award (Fiction Honor)
  • Horn Book Fanfare List
  • School Library Journal Best Book
  • IRA-CBC Children’s Choice for 2004
  • 2004 Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts (sponsored by the Children’s Literature Assembly of the National Council of Teachers of English)
  • 2005 New Mexico Battle of the Books (Middle School/Grades 7-9)
  • 2004-2005 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Master List (children’s choice award for
  • Vermont)
  • 2005 Kentucky Bluegrass Master List (Grades 3-5)
  • 2006 Louisiana Young Readers Choice Award Nominee (Grades 3-5)
  • 2004-2005 Maine Student Book Award Nominee (Grades 4-8)
  • 2004-2005 William Allen White Children’s Book Award Nominee (Kansas children’s choice award)
Miracle’s Boys
  • Coretta Scott King Award
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize
  • ALA Best Book for Young Adults
  • Sequoyah Book Award Master List, Young Adult Category
  • 2003-2004 Sunshine State Master List (grades 6-8)
  • 2003-2004 Georgia Children’s Book Award nominee
The Other Side
  • ALA Notable
  • Riverbank Review Children’s Book of Distinction
  • Texas Blue Bonnet List
  • School Library Journal Best Book
  • Booklist Editor’s Choice
  • New York Public Library’s 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing
  • 2001 Time of Wonder Award
  • IRA Teacher’s Choices 2002 (featured on covers of The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, Booklist and The Baltimore Sun)
  • 2004 Louisiana Young Reader’s Choice Award (Honor)
  • 2003-2004 Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Master List
  • California Young Reader Medal Nominee
  • 2003-2004 South Carolina Book Award Nominee
Peace Locomotion
  • Sunshine State Young Reader’s Award Master List for 2011-2012, Awarded by Florida State
  • Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award
  • Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Awards
  • Keystone to Reading Book Award
  • North Carolina Children’s Book Award
  • Kansas State Reading Circle
  • Capitol Choices, Virginia
  • Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award
Show Way
  • Newbery Honor Medal
Visiting Day
  • 2003 Skipping Stones Honor Award



Source: Jacquelinewoodson.com 
Online Resources

www.jacquelinewoodson.com


This site is all about the author. You can utilize this site to find out more information about the author including contact information. 


www.goodreads.com/author/show/74640.Jacqueline_Woodson

The above website can be used to get reviews on all of the books written by Jacqueline Woodson. You may use this website to find out 
what other readers are saying about the books written by this author. 


The following links are videos of Jacqueline Woodson and or of her literary work 
via youtube.com: 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_jD54_Of5A





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qerUJDZN6E0





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i48Mi3OK4Zc



The below website is great for teachers looking for resources on Jacqueline Woodson:


http://www.teachingbooks.net/author_collection.cgi?id=50&a=1

Reviewed Books written by Ms. Woodson

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This book was about a little girl named Gia whose mom was having a baby. Gia did not want to become a big sister. In this book the author shows how a soon to be big sister deals with the issues of a new baby, in this book the baby loves pecan pie, which was the one thing that Gia loved eating with her mom. Gia learns that in the end her mom loves her just as much as the new baby. 
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In the story of "The Other Side" Jacqueline Woodson's story of a African American little girl wants to play with a White young girl on the "other side" of the fence. The story shows how play has no color to little children. The children end up sitting on the fence together and eventually the African American little girl goes over to the "other side". 
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One of my favorite books from the author study! "This Is the Rope" is about a rope that is handed through out the migration of an African American family. The rope is used as way to hold luggage  for a grandmother migrating up North, and then her daughter going uses the same rope to tie these down inside a car to gaul the daughters belongings off to college. Lastly, the rope is replaced but the idea of the rope is handed down to the granddaughter to use as a jump rope.  
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A funny book about a family picnic on a Sunday. Everyone brings something, but Grandma hopes that Cousin Martha doesn't bring her nasty pie. This is a great book about family and unity. 

Activities: Grade 4th 

Discussion Cube: 
            Reading Comprehension


After reading the story of " This is the Rope" divide the class into 4 groups. In each group there will be a discussion cube with the following questions:


- Have you ever moved to a new town? What did you take with you?  What did you have to leave behind?


-How was the new home in New York City different from the home in South Carolina?

-Why did the family move from South Carolina?


-Why was the rope important? What does it represent?  What does it help the family remember?

Source: 
storypath.upsem.edu


Learning Standard:
CC.1.3.4. A-C: Students read and respond to works of literature with emphasis on comprehension, vocabulary acquisition, and making connections among ideas and between texts with focus on textual evidence.  
Writing: 
             Character Cluster 


In helping students to recall details about the various characters of the book "The Other Side" to aid in their comprehension I would have the students complete a character cluster. See example below. 












Learning Standard:
CC.1.3.4. A-C: Students read and respond to works of literature with emphasis on comprehension, vocabulary acquisition, and making connections among ideas and between texts with focus on textual evidence.  
Sequential Order:



Once students have completed reading " We had a Picnic This Past Sunday" have students write out the events of the story in order of which they came in the book. See below worksheet.





 
Source of worksheet:
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Learning Standard:
CC.1.3.4. A-C: Students read and respond to works of literature with emphasis on comprehension, vocabulary acquisition, and making connections among ideas and between texts with focus on textual evidence.  
Literary Analysis:






Students will make a Venn Diagram comparing "Pecan Pie Baby" with Junie B. Jones "Little Monkey Business"  The literary elements being compared are, plot, setting, characters, and mood. 




Source: www.juniebjones.com 








Learning Standard:
CC.1.3.4. A-C: Students read and respond to works of literature with emphasis on comprehension, vocabulary acquisition, and making connections among ideas and between texts with focus on textual evidence.