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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 12 of 31

It's Day 12! Writing about turning points can make for some great Slices.

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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 11 of 31

How do you encourage your student Slicers to leave comments for each other? Tell us today when you post your link.

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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 10 of 31

Welcome to Day 10 Classroom Slicers!  If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others:  read a lot and write a lot. Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been… Continue reading Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 10 of 31

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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 9 of 31

Author Jack Gantos offers tips to students at the International School of Kuala Lumpur. Welcome to Day 9 of the Classroom Challenge.

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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 8 of 31

Welcome to week two in a month of classroom writing. Have you joined the challenge?

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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 7 of 31

It's Day 7 Classroom Slicers! Today's post is about helping students get better at writing process as they write daily.

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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 6 of 31

Celebrate all students' efforts to rise to the Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge, even if they don't write daily. Teacher and Blogger (and Slicer!) Katherine Sokolowski has some great tips.

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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 5 of 31

Welcome to Day 5! The ways in which students choose to structure their Slice of Life Stories can be as varied as the students themselves. See a few examples in today's post.

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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 4 of 31

Move Beyond "Great Job". Teach your students how to compliment well, based on all they know about qualities of good narrative writing.

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Notes from the SOLSC my classroom: how to leave “constructive comments”.

Writing a Slice of Life every day is  challenging for us, and challenging for our students.  And, just as we (may) struggle with getting to everyone and leaving a meaningful comment, so it is for our students, too. For my students, who slice every Friday, all year, as part of our writing workshop routine, commenting was something that had… Continue reading Notes from the SOLSC my classroom: how to leave “constructive comments”.

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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 3 of 31

Are your students writing every day? It's Day Three of the Slice of Life Story Challenge.

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Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 2 of 31

Welcome to Day 2 of the Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge!