Category: SOLSC Classroom Challenge

Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 24 of 31
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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 24 of 31

BethMooreSchool26 Comments

Do you teach English Language Learners? Some ideas and resources for blogging with ELLs.

Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 23 of 31
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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 23 of 31

BethMooreSchool26 Comments

A good comparison or metaphor can take you far!

Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 22 of 31
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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 22 of 31

BethMooreSchool19 Comments

It’s Day Twenty-two of the Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge. Welcome back! If your students are struggling to find inspiration, you might teach them a few new strategies.

Another Commenting Challenge with a BIG Prize
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Another Commenting Challenge with a BIG Prize

Dana Murphy41 Comments

Are you ready for our second Commenting Challenge? Check out this prize from the Highlights Foundation!

Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 21 of 31
SOLSC Classroom Challenge · writing workshop

Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 21 of 31

BethMooreSchool30 Comments

Starting to get stuck for ideas? Try this strategy shared by Aparna Rugapathi on her blog, Serendipity.

Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 20 of 31
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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 20 of 31

Tara Smith23 Comments

Have you ever spent a day waiting for something: good news, new shoes, a soccer game, or a visit from a special relative? Can you remember the way all that "waiting" was harder and harder to do as the day went along?

Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 19 of 31
SOLSC Classroom Challenge

Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 19 of 31

Tara Smith19 Comments

Do you have a favorite place? One that you can close your eyes and imagine perfectly? Well, that would be a wonderful thing to write about...

Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 18 of 31
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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 18 of 31

Tara Smith26 Comments

A Slice of Life is a wonderful place to practice writing in a humorous way. Here for example is Andrew, who is writing about going for a drive with his sister, who has just collected her first official driver’s license...

Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 17 of 31
SOLSC Classroom Challenge

Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 17 of 31

Tara Smith33 Comments

Wow! You are just a bit more than halfway through the March Slice of Life Story Challenge, and this calls for a celebration...

Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 16 of 31
SOLSC Classroom Challenge

Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 16 of 31

Tara Smith28 Comments

Poetry is a wonderful way to help you think of ideas to slice about. We read many poems in our sixth grade classroom, and each of them seem to invite all of us to remember many stories...

Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 15 of 31
SOLSC Classroom Challenge

Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 15 of 31

Tara Smith31 Comments

For some of you, March may mean testing time. It might be hard to believe, but taking the test is actually something quite wonderful to write about. There are so many moments to slow down and write about in great detail...

SOLSC Classroom Challenge

Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 14 of 31

Tara Smith20 Comments

Slice of Life writing is all about being attentive to everything around you, because you never know where an idea for a writing might be hiding, just waiting to be discovered. Sometimes, a Slice of Life is hiding within plain sight, right outside your window...