Biography jacqueline woodson

Jacqueline Woodson’s TED Talk “What reading slowly taught me about writing”

I wrote on everything and everywhere. I remember my uncle catching me writing my name in graffiti on the side of a building.

(It was not pretty for me when my mother found out.) I wrote on paper bags and my shoes and denim binders. I chalked stories across sidewalks and penciled tiny tales in notebook margins. I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.

I also told a lot of stories as a child.

Not “Once upon a time” stories but basically, outright lies.

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I loved lying and getting away with it! There was something about telling the lie-story and seeing your friends’ eyes grow wide with wonder. Of course I got in trouble for lying but I didn’t stop until fifth grade.

That year, I wrote a story and my teacher said “This is really good.” Before that I had written a poem about Martin Lut