Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 2 of 31
It’s Day Two of the Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge. Welcome back! If your students are struggling to find inspiration, it will certainly be a good idea to call on your previous teaching and remind them of all the strategies they know to generate ideas for personal narrative writing.
Some classic strategies:
- Think of a person or a place that means a lot to you or has played a big role in your life. List moments you remember with that person or at that place. Choose one of those moments and write the story of it.
- Think of strong emotions and list a few, such as anger, fear, embarrassment. Then, list times that you felt that emotion under each one. Choose one of the moments and write the story of it.
Encourage your writers to try out a couple of different stories before choosing one that they will write as a Slice of Life story. Also, by generating lists of ideas instead of just jumping into writing a story, they will be collecting ideas for future posts.
If you have strategies that worked particularly well to help your students to generate ideas, feel free to share them along with the permalink to your students’ posts in the comments section.
Useful Links:
- 31 Slices (ideas for topics)
- Essential Information (includes classroom materials, details on Twitter hashtags, and thoughts about commenting)
- Q&A About the Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge (watch a video call with elementary school students)
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Anna is a staff developer, literacy coach, and writer, based in New York City. She taught internationally in places such as Sydney, Australia; San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and Auckland, New Zealand in addition to New York before becoming a staff developer for the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University (TCRWP). She has been an adjunct instructor in the Literacy Specialist Program at Teachers College, and teaches at TCRWP where she helps participants bring strong literacy instruction into their classrooms. Anna recently co-wrote Bringing History to Life with Lucy Calkins, part of the 2013 series Units of Study in Opinion, Information, and Narrative Writing (Heinemann). She has been a researcher for Lucy Calkins, contributing especially to Pathways to the Common Core (Heinemann, 2012) and Navigating Nonfiction (Heinemann, 2010).
My first graders are LOVING the vs. stories and the 30 Day Writing Challenge!
http://www.behindthescenesinfirstgrade.com/3/post/2014/03/30-day-writing-challenge-day-2.html
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Why our writing is important ~ we all have a voice and a message that needs to be shared.
http://islandsofmysoul.com/2014/03/03/my-angel-of-love/
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Our Grade 6 students are so excited to be taking part in the SOL Challenge. Just needed some time to refine our processes. Day 2 up and running. Student links in the comment section of our class blog http://iskl6aslicers.blogspot.com/2014/03/sol-2-recuperation-and-relaxation.html
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Day 2 is about feeling disconnected. http://stephanieshouldis.blogspot.com/2014/03/solc-disconnected.html
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Day 2 is all about procrastination.
http://teachingandlearning-carr.blogspot.com/2014/03/sol-day-2-procrastination.html
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Poetry rocks!
http://thesassybibliophile.blogspot.com/2014/03/poetry-rocks.html
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Please click on the following link to follow the 6B Slicers – Comments to be added throughout the day. http://6bslicers.blogspot.com/2014/03/slice-of-life-2.html
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Here are day 2 participants: http://merelylearningtogether.weebly.com/1/post/2014/03/slice-of-life-day-2.html
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Faiza bemoans Sunday and celebrates “I’m possible” http://31students.wordpress.com/2014/03/02/march-2nd-2014/
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Eden’s Day 2, http://fromourkingzoo.blogspot.com/2014/03/just-who-i-am.html
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More participants on day 2! So exciting.
http://kidblog.org/MrsKeelersRLAclass/
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A few late-night posts last night, plus a few posts up already today! Love my ELL writers!!! http://kidblog.org/WritingOurOwnWords/tag/slice-of-life/
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2 for 2. w00t! http://sharpread.wordpress.com/2014/03/02/slice-of-life-sunday-school/
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Stronger in Priorities is my Day 2 Blog.
http://rschroederblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/02/stronger-in-priorties/
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This is for day 2! Sunday in my house.
http://natalielouis13.wordpress.com/2014/03/02/making-bacon/
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Third graders writing on a Sunday…I hope. They are linking in the comments.
http://3rdgradeslicers.wordpress.com/2014/03/02/march-2-2014-slice-of-life/
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Oops! I posted here with the classroom slicers and meant to post on the regular Day 2 – please forgive me – I don’t know if there is a way to “uncomment”
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Trying to write a book one sentence at a time.
http://prosecents.blogspot.com/2014/03/working-on-one-sentence-in-my-book.html
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A few 6th grade posts from late last night and this morning. Their effort is inspiring! Comments wanted!
http://slicesfrompod2.blogspot.com/2014/03/march-2nd-slices.html
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Day 2: Reflection on replacing habits with new ones.
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No slices up for day 2 yet, but a fair smattering for day 1! Can’t wait until tomorrow.
http://kidblog.org/writingtigers/
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Looking at student data
http://literacy180.blogspot.com/2014/03/beyond-numbers.html
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Explore the blatherings of sixth graders from the International School of Kuala Lumpur. See comments under my slice.
http://smpeters5.wordpress.com/2014/03/02/sol-2-master-of-all-words/
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Explore the slices of Max and Kam’s Middle School students in Denver, CO! Links in the comments section will be added throughout the day by our students. http://maxsclassreads.blogspot.com/2014/03/solsc-231-max-and-kams-class.html
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The real reason I haven’t blogged in 5 months.
http://writingmehome.wordpress.com/2014/03/02/the-real-reason-i-havent-been-blogging/
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Reflections on the art and science of love and logic or law and order in the classroom: http://jakartajackie.wordpress.com/2014/03/02/can-i-talk-with-you-a-minute/
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My time zones are off. I wrote this for day 1 but did not post until it was techinically day 2. Live and learn (to read more closely)!
http://wp.me/p4nsSb-4
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