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She wrote on everything
Citing Evidence: Informational Text - Quiz - Level H
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she could find: paper bags,
her shoes, sidewalks, and
even the sides of buildings
Woodson at a book
signing
--which got her into trouble. From the start, Jacqueline
knew she wanted to be a writer and was determined to do
things her own way.
supports that no one thought
Jacqueline would become a famous
author?
People didn't care how she held her
notebook.
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She was reading like a writer.
It seemed like she was a struggling
reader.
Back then, hardly anyone cared which way Jacqueline's
notebooks were pointed, because no one thought she
would become a famous writer. "I know if I was raised in
this day and age, I would have been labeled a struggling
reader," Woodson said in an interview. "But what I know
now is I was actually reading like a writer. I was reading
slowly and deliberately and deconstructing language."
She was raised in a different time.