It Jes' Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw
by Don Tate and R. Gregory Christie
A self-trained artist who didn’t start drawing until he was eighty-five and... read more
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- Grade
- 1-5
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Cultural Area
- African American
Year Published 2012
Word Count 1,580
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 830L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.8
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 151587
- Curricular Area
- Art
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - General
- Folk artists
- African American painters
- Alabama
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Art
- Alabama--Biography--Juvenile literature
- African American painters--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Traylor, Bill, 1854-1949--Juvenile literature
- United States
- Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
- Folk artists--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Art | Drawing
- Traylor, Bill
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- Say Hello!
- African American Experience
- Elementary eBooks
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Our Original Resources 5
Audio Name Pronunciation with R. Gregory Christie
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Audio Name Pronunciation with Don Tate
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Nonfiction Read and Respond Multi-Leveled Lesson
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Cultural Representation Reflection
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Submit Qualitative Text Complexity Rubric
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Book Guides, Activities & Lessons 4
Nonfiction Read and Respond Multi-Leveled Lesson
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Cultural Representation Reflection
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Common Core Guide from Booklist Online
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Teacher's Guide from Lee & Low
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Book Trailers 1

Video Book Trailer from Don Tate
Created by Don Tate
Awards & Distinctions 3

Ezra Jack Keats Book Award, 1986-2020
Author Honor, 2013

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2013

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2012
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