Becoming Billie Holiday
by Carole Boston Weatherford and Floyd Cooper
16 Total Resources 1 Awards View Text Complexity Discover Like Books
- Grade
- 4-12
- Genre
- Biography
- Poetry
- Cultural Area
- African American
Year Published 2008
Word Count 11,397
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 970L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.8
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 124496
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Music
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Music
- Novels in verse
- Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959--Fiction
- African Americans--Fiction
- Young Adult Biography
- African Americans
- Holiday, Billie
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Music | Jazz
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
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Our Original Resources 6
Meet-the-Author Recording with Carole Boston Weatherford about Becoming Billie Holiday
Created by TeachingBooks
Audio Name Pronunciation with Floyd Cooper
Created by TeachingBooks
Audio Name Pronunciation with Carole Boston Weatherford
Created by TeachingBooks
Story Map Multi-Leveled Lesson
Created by TeachingBooks
Cultural Representation Reflection
Created by TeachingBooks
Submit Qualitative Text Complexity Rubric
Created by TeachingBooks
About the Authors 6
Audio Name Pronunciation with Floyd Cooper
Created by TeachingBooks
Audio Name Pronunciation with Carole Boston Weatherford
Created by TeachingBooks
Author Interviews 7
Meet-the-Author Recording with Carole Boston Weatherford
Created by TeachingBooks
Interview with Carole Boston Weatherford
Created by Cynsations
Guest Blog Post by Floyd Cooper
Created by Horn Book
Interview with Carole Boston Weatherford
Created by Reading Rockets
Interview with Carole Boston Weatherford
Created by National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
Interview with Carole Boston Weatherford
Created by Candlewick Press Presents Podcast
Interview with Carole Boston Weatherford
Created by WUNC (North Carolina Public Radio®)
Book Guides, Activities & Lessons 4
Story Map Multi-Leveled Lesson
Created by TeachingBooks
Cultural Representation Reflection
Created by TeachingBooks
Discussion Guide from Coretta Scott King Book Awards
Created by Coretta Scott King Book Awards
Lesson Plan from Disney-Hyperion
Created by Disney-Hyperion
Awards & Distinctions 1
Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2021
Author Honor, 2009
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