SOLSC Classroom Challenge

Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 15 of 31

Anna Gratz Cockerille

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It’s Day 15 Classroom Slicers!

I’ve written before about the writing class I took with the brilliant James Howe. We would often start class with a writing exercise meant to warm up our writing muscles. Once, James asked us to go on a virtual tour of our home, or our childhood house. He asked us to visit each room in our minds, and to think of moments or stories that occurred in each room. Then, he asked us to write the story of a moment that particularly inspired us.

Today as you look for moments to write about, consider going on a tour of your home. Notice moments, or even memories of moments, that occurred in particular rooms, and write away.

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).

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