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SOL Tuesday
It’s Slice of Life Tuesday! Come share some writing, share some comments!
Rethinking the “I-Rule”
Many of us were taught that first person pronouns had no place in academic writing. But is that rule still being followed by professional writers?
SOL Tuesday
It’s Slice of Life Tuesday! Those of you feeling withdrawals from the March Slice of Life Story Challenge, breathe a sigh of relief. Come one, come all, come slice…
SOLSC Participant Pledge
Congratulations to all for an amazing March Slice of Life Story Challenge! If you faithfully met the criteria for the challenge by slicing and commenting each day in March, we invite you to complete our form to become eligible for a prize!
2018 CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 15 OF 31
Day 15 of the Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge!
2018 CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 14 OF 31
Day 14 of the Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge!
ANNOUNCING THE WINNER OF THE CLASSROOM SOLSC MID-MONTH COMMENTING CHALLENGE
Congratulations to the winner of this weekend’s Mid-month Commenting Challenge!
2018 CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 13 OF 31
Day 13 of the Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge!
2018 CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 12 OF 31
Day 12 of the Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge!
2018 CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 11 OF 31
Day 11 of the Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge!
A NEW KIND OF COMMENTING CHALLENGE #SOL18
Like our adult community, our student writing community thrives on comments and feedback. We invite our students to participate in the Classroom Challenge in hopes that they will be able to connect with other writers from around the community and the world. In the spirit of that global community, we are offering a brand new kind of commenting challenge. As part of the 11th Annual SOLSC, we present our first mid-month challenge! Are you ready?
2018 CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 10 OF 31
Day 10 of the Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge!
Urgent Small Groups: Eating the Whole Cookie
Recent longitudinal studies have shown that students who in early years perform as strong writers do not remain strong writers into middle school. Rather, they slip to the middle of the pack- or worse, they become unmotivated to write. Why is that? And what can we do about it?
2018 CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 9 OF 31
Day 9 of the Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge!
2018 CLASSROOM SOLSC FOR STUDENTS: DAY 8 OF 31
Day 8 of the Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge!
4 Tips for Successful Active Involvement in a Minilesson
In a minilesson, we work to not only demonstrate a strategy sometimes employed by professional writers, but also to provide a quick opportunity for young writers assembled before us to apply it, either in their own writing or in a co-authored class composition. This short segment of the minilesson during which writers ‘give a strategy a go’ themselves, often called the “Active Involvement” or “Active Engagement,” allows writers an immediate opportunity for application in the supportive environs of the meeting area. How can we make this part of the lesson really count?
Conferring with Writers: Beyond the Fundamentals of Writing Workshop
“How about we read Goodnight, Gorilla?” Raising my eyebrows, I gazed hopefully at my two year-old daughter. “Or maybe we could read The Grouchy Ladybug? You love that one!” “No!” Her… Continue reading
Addressing Knowledge Issues in Informational Writing
If we do not possess a good amount of background knowledge, if we are not interested in the topic, and we were not given a choice, our writing typically suffers. Lack of knowledge in particular, as Mary Ehrenworth suggests, manifests quickly as writing weakness and writing problems. As writing workshop teachers, how might we think about and address these challenges?
Seeking Prize Donations
The 11th Annual Slice of Life Story Challenge is right around the corner! Currently, we are seeking readers of our blog who are willing to donate a prize for the participants of the SOLSC. notebooks, pens, or any other writing-related gifts that SOLSC participants would appreciate.