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It’s Tuesday: Welcome to Slice of Life!

In this writing community, Tuesdays mean writing a slice of life, sharing it, and appreciating the writing of others through comments.

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It’s Tuesday: Welcome to Slice of Life!

Many slicers spent the month of March finding inspiration, writing, sharing, and commenting every day. Throughout the year, we welcome you back together on Tuesdays!

mentor texts · picture book · slice of life · small moment · SOLSC Classroom Challenge

An Extraordinary Way to Inspire Writing About Ordinary Moments

Whether you're about to embark on the 9th Annual Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge or you're about to begin a unit on poetry where you want to encourage students to capture the beauty of their ordinary lives in verse, consider using Extraordinary! as a mentor text. Leave a comment on this blog post for a chance to win a copy of Extraordinary!

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It’s Tuesday: Welcome to Slice of Life Story Challenge

Welcome to the Slice of Life Story Challenge. You are invited to write a slice of life from your week, share it with others by linking below, and give comments of your own to three other bloggers.

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Tuesday Slice of Life Story Challenge

Welcome to the weekly Slice of Life Story Challenge. Write your story, share it, and then comment on other posts.

back to school · COVID-19 · notebooks · remote learning · slice of life · Teachers who write · writing workshop

Write the Moments: Documenting a Most Unusual School Year

If ever there were a moment in education to pay attention, be astonished, and tell about it in our writing, I wager it's now. This is the season of school evolving and changing. This is the back to school season with words we never imagined before- sneeze guards, Zoom breakouts, synchronous and asynchronous, mask breaks, temperature checks, distance learning, hybrid model. What we always knew is no longer, for the most part. What remains? How do we teach well in a COVID-19 world? What matters? What doesn't? This year, we need to write the moments.

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2020 June/July Vacation

As this historic school year comes to a close, the TWT team is taking a break through the rest of June and July. We will return on August 2nd. Of course, we will still be here each Tuesday for Slice of Life through June and July and we look forward to connecting through stories.

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Classroom SOLSC: Closing In On the End – Week 5

2020 Classroom Slice of Life Challenge Twenty-five days of student writing are now behind us, and we are closing in on the end of the 2020 Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge. Students have worked hard to write stories each day. There have been stories that have filled pages and stories that seemed to barely… Continue reading Classroom SOLSC: Closing In On the End – Week 5

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The New Slicer’s Survival Guide to the March SOLSC

Have you signed up to take part in the March SOLSC for the first time? Are you on the fence about signing up and want to know a little more about how the challenge works? You are in the right place, my friend! Here is your New Slicer Survival Guide!

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Write. Share. Give. #SOL20

What is happening in your corner of the world? Share your story.

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Share a Slice: SOL Tuesday #SOL20

Look around! Sometimes the simplest story is hiding in an unimaginable place.

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Write. Share. Give. #SOL20

Words collected can become a story told.