SOLSC Classroom Challenge

Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 9 of 31

Anna Gratz Cockerille

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Welcome to Day 9!

We at the TWT have really been enjoying the posts from the International School of Kuala Lumpur. Recently, author Jack Gantos visited the school, and, according to teacher Bron Narsiman: “he offered our students a myriad of suggestions and strategies that they could use when faced with writing.” What a fortuitous visit during Slice of Life Story Challenge month!

Following is a list of some of Jack Gantos’s tips, as reported by Ms. Narsiman.

  • Writing is powerful, you have the power
  • Carry a journal around with, fill it with drawings, notes, photos and post its.
  • Practise good writing habits, keep to the mantra, 10 minutes, 10 minutes each day, and in no time at all you have the content
  • After this you have a story, a great messy story
  • Once you have the content, focus on structure
  • Make a list of ideas
  • Follow elements of a story.

Click here to see the full post and to read some of the writing from ISKL students.

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Published by Anna Gratz Cockerille

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).

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