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Author: 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).
Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 15 of 31
Day 15! Almost halfway there! Today's post has a writing exercise from the wonderful James Howe.
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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 14 of 31
Are you a synthesizer or an analyzer? Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge Day 14.
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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 13 of 31
Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge Day 13! Write. Share. Give.
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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 12 of 31
It's Day 12! Writing about turning points can make for some great Slices.
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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 11 of 31
How do you encourage your student Slicers to leave comments for each other? Tell us today when you post your link.
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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 10 of 31
Welcome to Day 10 Classroom Slicers! If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been… Continue reading Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 10 of 31
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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 9 of 31
Author Jack Gantos offers tips to students at the International School of Kuala Lumpur. Welcome to Day 9 of the Classroom Challenge.
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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 8 of 31
Welcome to week two in a month of classroom writing. Have you joined the challenge?
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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 7 of 31
It's Day 7 Classroom Slicers! Today's post is about helping students get better at writing process as they write daily.
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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 6 of 31
Celebrate all students' efforts to rise to the Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge, even if they don't write daily. Teacher and Blogger (and Slicer!) Katherine Sokolowski has some great tips.
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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 5 of 31
Welcome to Day 5! The ways in which students choose to structure their Slice of Life Stories can be as varied as the students themselves. See a few examples in today's post.
