When you're writing a slice of life, it can be about something ordinary. Please don't wait until something extraordinary happens to you to share a slice of life story here. Sharing the ordinary is more than okay... it's what slicing is all about!
Author: Stacey Shubitz
Stacey Shubitz is a K-6 literacy consultant and former elementary teacher. She is the author of CRAFT MOVES and other professional books on writing workshop. Her new book, MAKE THE SCHOOL SYSTEM WORK FOR YOUR CHILD WITH DISABILITIES (Guilford Press, 2026), empowers parents to navigate the special education system.
Notebooks on Field Trips: Discovering the Writer’s Life
One of my favorite things about being a classroom teacher was taking educational field trips with my students. One year, I took my fifth grades on 20-25 field trips around the five boroughs of New York City. We walked, rode buses, and took the Subway to museums, zoos, parks, and botanical gardens. I loved supplementing… Continue reading Notebooks on Field Trips: Discovering the Writer’s Life
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SOL Tuesday & Four Weeks Until the March Challenge Begins
In February, there are always new people testing the Slicing waters as March draws nearer. They’re trying to determine whether or not they feel comfortable writing publicly. If you see someone who leaves a comment that says something like, “This is my first slice,” today or Tuesday, please head over to their blog to leave them a comment sicne it's both exciting and intimidating to put your words out in the world.
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Join Our Writing Community!
Calling all educators! Whether you're thinking about joining our writing community or coming back for your ninth March writing challenge, please take a few minutes to read this post. (NOTE: There's a change about who can participate in the individual challenge this year.)
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What do I do with all of my students’ writing?
Are you feeling inundated with paper in your writing workshop? Here are some quick tips to help you help your students organize their writing so that their desks and writing folders are less cluttered.
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Stacey’s One Little Word of 2016
Expressing thanks for the big things, and seemingly insignificant things, can lead to happiness.
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Talking with Megan Dowd Lambert, Author of Reading Picture Books WITH Children
I spend a lot of time writing about ways teachers can use picture books as mentor texts to lift the level of students' writing. Today I want to share the Whole Book Approach with you since it's a way you can enrich the read alouds you're already doing with your students. This post includes an interview with Megan Dowd Lambert, creator of the Whole Book Approach and a giveaway of her new book, Reading Picture Books with Children: How to Shake Up Storytime and Get Kids Talking About What They See.
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Make Lab Sites Meaningful
General tips for literacy coaches to use when facilitating writing workshop lab sites.
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Writing Tweet Round-up
Check out Stacey's end-of-the-month curated collection of writing Tweets!
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Happy Thanksgiving!
On behalf of the co-author team, I'd like to thank you for your dedication to the writers you teach. As the eight of us know, the work of a teacher of writers is never done. There are always minilessons to write, new strategies to try, and drafts to be read. For all that you do… Continue reading Happy Thanksgiving!
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Welcome to the World, Oliver!
We're throwing a virtual baby shower for Anna, who welcomed a new baby into the world yesterday.
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New Mentor Texts for Information Writing
The books featured in this post, all of which were published in 2015, represent a variety of information writing. All of these are texts that can pull double- and even triple-duty in your classroom, thereby allowing you to use a text during read-aloud time so you can revisit it during a writing workshop minlesson and/or in a content area.
