Welcome to Slice of Life Tuesday! Take a few moments today to commit some words to the page (or screen)! I'm looking forward to hosting this month, and I’m glad you're choosing to write!
Author: Melanie Meehan
I am the Writing and Social Studies Coordinator in Simsbury, CT, and I love what I do. I get to write and inspire others to write! Additionally, I am the mom to four fabulous daughters and the wife of a great husband.
Sentence Expansion to Build Fluency: Straight From the Classroom
Sentence expansion has been a technique I've used with many students from early elementary grades up through middle school, and it has provided practice opportunities for creating increasingly complex sentences with consistent use of conventions.
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Food For Slicing- Classroom Slice of Life
Classroom Slice of Life challenge takers are closing in on the final day of April and the completioin of their challenge. I know from past experiences that those last few posts can be elusive. Please consider leaving some comments for the younger slicers in this community. You can find many of them here, and I'm sure they'd appreciate all the encouragement they can get!
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A Recap of Recent Posts- #ICYMI
Make sure you didn't miss anything this month with this roundup of recent posts and podcasts.
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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge 2024: The Power of Perspectives for Writers
Perhaps this week, consider challenging students to revisit stories, especially personal narratives, and write them from a different person’s point of view. Maybe students write only small snippets of a longer story, and that’s okay!
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Student Agency and AI Tools: Leveraging AI for Writing Mini-series
Leah began a series about AI in writing instruction with a post about how teachers can use AI tools for planning and preparing for units. Sara kept it going last week with a post about creating demonstration pieces and providing feedback. Today, I completed the series thinking about ways to shift agency from teachers to students.
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Grammar and Conventions: Build Your Expertise Blog Series
Good teaching involves balance, prioritization, and clarity. Writing requires the integration of many skills, many of which are approximations long before they are mastered. I hope that some of this research and implications for practice will resonate with someone, leading to celebrations, reflections, and reminders about how people learn.
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Toolkit Resources for Writing Instruction
My toolkit has evolved over the last couple of years, but it's just as important to me as it's ever been to have the right resource with or easily accessible to me whenever I sit down next to a writer. This post shares many of the resources that I keep in my toolkit.
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The Power of Toolkits: From the Archives
Toolkits make teachers more efficient and effective almost every time they go to teach. I am constantly re-envisioning and refreshing my own, and I found many ideas by going through the archives!
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How to Become a Better Writing Teacher: Book Review and Giveaway
How to Become a Better Writing Teacher by Matt Glover and Carl Anderson is a comprehensive guide that illuminates the art of teaching writing with insightful strategies and practical advice.
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A Few Ideas for Sharing Information
Necessity is the mother of invention, and so I’ve been working on other ways to bring snippets--or more-- of information to teachers. Here are a few of them, and you’re welcome to use them and add other ideas in the comments!
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Biweekly Recap #ICYMI
Every other week, we are sharing a round-up of recently published blog posts, and I am excited to share some posts I loved over the last couple of weeks!
