Jacqueline Woodson: Advice for Writers | Young Minds Dreaming | Ask an Author

Jacqueline Woodson, author of the award-winning Brown Girl Dreaming, gives advice to aspiring young writers.

Books by Woodson include:

• Picture Books
• Middle Grade Titles
• Young Adult Titles

The 2017 Young Minds Dreaming Contest winners were invited to attend a closed ceremony at the SC State Library to read their poems and to meet author Jacqueline Woodson. 

Standards

• W.RC Range and Complexity
  • W.RC.6 Write independently, legibly, and routinely for a variety of tasks, purposes, and audiences over short and extended time frames.
• Grade 5: Apply correct usage of capitalization in writing.
  • Grade 1: Write left to right leaving spaces between words.
    • Grade 5: Connect upper- and lowercase letters efficiently and proportionately in cursive handwriting.
• Grade 2: Print upper- and lower-case letters proportionally using appropriate handwriting techniques.
  • Grade 1: Write left to right leaving space between words.
    • Grade 5: Connect upper- and lower-case letters efficiently and proportionately in cursive handwriting.

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