It's Day 28 Classroom Slicers! Home Stretch! Write. Share. Give.
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 27 of 31
It's Day 27 Classroom Slicers! Write. Share. Give.
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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 26 of 31
It's Day 26 Classroom Slicers! Write. Share. Give.
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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 25 of 31
It's Day 25 Classroom Slicers! Are you writing in scenes, not summaries? Write. Share. Give.
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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 24 of 31
Need a way to boost your class's commenting? Try a commenting challenge!
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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 23 of 31
It's Day 23 Classroom Slicers! The days are dwindling in our month long challenge. So today: Write. Share. Give.
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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 22 of 31
It's Day 22 Classroom Slicers! Write. Share. Give.
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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 21 of 31
Day 21 Classroom Slicers! Link your Slice here.
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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 20 of 31
It's Day 20 of our Classroom Slice of Life Story Writing Challenge. Write. Share. Give.
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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 19 of 31
It's Day 19! Carving out the Slices from our life events.
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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 18 of 31
It's Day 18 Classroom Slicers! Write. Share. Give.
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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 17 of 31
Today, let's begin at beginnings. The introduction of a piece is the writer's chance and obligation to do so much - set the stage, introduce characters, foreshadow the trouble brewing, hint at what the piece is really about. Studying published leads can help.
