Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for The Other Side

Use The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson to strengthen your students comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

The Other Side is a story about a town with a long fence. The fence divides people according to the color of their skin. White people live on one side. Black people live on the other. While the main characters forge a friendship that does not see color, your students will have rich opportunities to connect with the text, practice retelling, identify the author's purpose, and to visualize.

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About the Book

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Title: The Other Side
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Genre: Historical Fiction
Themes: Black History Month, Friendship
ISBN: 9780399231162
Publisher's Summary:
Clover's mom says it isn't safe to cross the fence that segregates their African-American side of town from the white side where Anna lives. But the two girls strike up a friendship, and get around the grown-ups' rules by sitting on top of the fence together.
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