Tara Smith teaches writing workshop, Language Arts and Social Studies to sixth graders at a middle school in suburban New Jersey.  Before she was a teacher, she was an editor first at the Cloverdale Press and then at Macmillan.  She blogs at “A Teaching Life” (at  http://tmsteach.blogspot.com/) and continues to slice away at Two Writing… Continue reading GUEST BLOG POST: Weaving the “Slice of Life” Routine into Writing Workshop