Welcome to day 30 of the Slice of Life Story Challenge. So close to the end!
Author: Lanny Ball
For more than 29 years, Lanny has taught, coached, presented, staff developed, and consulted within the exciting and enigmatic world of literacy. With unyielding passion and belief in the possibility of workshop teaching, Lanny has worked to support students, teachers, and school administrators around the country in outgrowing themselves as both writers and readers. Working first as a classroom teacher, then as a coach and TCRWP Staff Developer, Lanny is now a literacy specialist, working and living in the great state of Connecticut. Outside of literacy, he enjoys raising his three ambitious young daughters with his wife, and playing the piano. Find him on this blog, as well as on Twitter @LannyBall. Lanny is also a former co-author of a blog dedicated to supporting writing teachers and coaches that maintain classroom writing workshops, twowritingteachers.org.
DAY 29 OF THE MARCH SOLSC! #SOL19
Welcome to day 29 of the Slice of Life Story Challenge. Write. Share. Give.
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DAY 28 OF THE MARCH SOLSC! #SOL19
Getting close to the end now, Slicers! Welcome to Day 28.
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DAY 27 OF THE MARCH SOLSC! #SOL19
Twenty-seven days into a daily writing habit. Congratulations!
Acknowledging Writers to Disturb the Universe
In writing workshop, we operate on multiple levels-- we try to plan and deliver effective minilessons, we try to confer with our writers (and take some notes?), we create anchor charts, and so forth. But what about validating the voices of our student writers? Here are a few tips for disturbing the universe...
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ANNOUNCING THE WINNER OF THE 1st 2019 SOLSC MID-MONTH COMMENTING CHALLENGE
Congratulations to the winner of this weekend’s Mid-month Commenting Challenge!
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The First Commenting Challenge of the SOLSC is here!
Are you ready for a challenge? It's our first mid-month challenge of the 2019 SOLSC! Get ready to roll out some extra comments...
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Where is the Attention?
Sometimes it can be difficult to imagine creating or allowing a wider audience to read our students' writing. But there is great possibility in doing so. It just takes a shift in attention...
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Time to Write
Donald Murray, author of the seminal text A Writer Teaches Writing (Houghton Mifflin, 1985), teaches us that one of the most important things to a writer is time, time to write. But with the many time constraints faced by teachers, how can we be thinking about time in ways that make a difference for our students?
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Honoring Student Voice: Teaching Writing With a Social Justice Lens
“Did he read it yet?” Anxiously, I stared into my mother’s eyes as she stepped inside the house, closing the front door behind her. After a day of teaching elementary school, my mom dropped her bag of schoolwork just inside the front door and began fishing about inside its contents. A few days prior, I… Continue reading Honoring Student Voice: Teaching Writing With a Social Justice Lens
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Rethinking Learning Targets
We all want to support and nurture inspired writers who work independently. So how might we carefully avoid creating uninspiring, teacher-dependent environments for learning? I present a few ideas here...
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Strengthening Writing Partnerships, Part 2
In my previous November post about partnerships, three ideas were shared: (1) Study existing partnerships to assess current and potential effectiveness; (2) Teach a replicable process for meaningful revision; and (3) Teach writers how to create process pages. Today I will share just a few more strategies for supporting and strengthening writing partnerships...
