SOLSC Classroom Challenge

Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 11 of 31

Anna Gratz Cockerille

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Welcome to Day 11 Classroom Slicers!

 

Ms Simon Twitter

The other day, Margaret Simon tweeted that her class made over 120 comments today for their comment challenge. WOW! As Dana posted recently, Heinemann Publishing is giving a prize to the adult Slicer who could leave the most comments in a 48-hour period.
Teachers, do you have any ideas for prizes or ways to inspire student Slicers who are especially motivated to comment? If so, we would love if you left your ideas in the comment section along with your links below.

Happy Slicing!

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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).

25 thoughts on “Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 11 of 31”

  5. To help create a little momentum right now, we are having a super-slicer challenge. The challenge is for my “pod” of 6th graders to get as many kids to publish in 24 hours as possible. I have 100 kids, with about 65 committed to 16 days of slicing and 44 of those going for 31 days. My kids can count their slice of life journal entries towards their 31 slices, but this challenge is to PUBLISH as many as possible on our blog tomorrow night! We’ll see what happens…my plan is to try to beat our record later in the month.

    Here’s what we have for tonight– kind of sparse. Everyone’s saving for tomorrow. 🙂

    http://slicesfrompod2.blogspot.com/2014/03/march-11th-slices.html

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  18. All I did to get them commenting is to offer the challenge. I had a bag of Starburst candy and we made a tally chart on the board. Students would type a comment and run to the board to mark their tally. I think I’ll try to do this every Friday. Here we are with some bio-poems about ourselves and book characters: http://kidblog.org/SliceofLifeChallenge/

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