slice of life

SOL Tuesday

It's April! Back to our regularly scheduled Slice of Life Tuesday. With only a one day break, let's get back together, Slicers! Come write, share, give...

engagement · writing workshop

Disguising Engagement

True engagement is hard to miss. However, there are several look-a-likes out there. Some are called compliance and participation.

giveaway · SOLSC

SOLSC Participant Pledge 2019

Congratulations to all for an amazing March Slice of Life Story Challenge! If you faithfully met the criteria for the challenge by slicing and commenting each day in March, we invite you to complete our form to become eligible for a prize!

SOLSC Classroom Challenge

Classroom SOLSC: Here We Go!

Welcome to the Classroom SOLSC! We moved to April...no fooling! Student bloggers, this is your month! Thank you to the dedicated educators who are inspiring students to live like a writer all month long.

Slice of Life Story Challenge

DAY 31 OF THE MARCH SOLSC! #SOL19

Welcome to the final day of the Slice of Life Story Challenge. This is it! Day 31! Write! Share! Give!

Slice of Life Story Challenge

DAY 30 OF THE MARCH SOLSC! #SOL19

Welcome to day 30 of the Slice of Life Story Challenge. So close to the end!

Slice of Life Story Challenge

DAY 29 OF THE MARCH SOLSC! #SOL19

Welcome to day 29 of the Slice of Life Story Challenge. Write. Share. Give.

digital tools · interactive writing · technology

Interactive Digital Writing

As we work interactively with our students to compose a digital message, we share the keyboard. This time is instructional, authentic and explicit. The message composed and how it is composed comes from the students and holds value to the community of writers.

Slice of Life Story Challenge

DAY 28 OF THE MARCH SOLSC! #SOL19

Getting close to the end now, Slicers! Welcome to Day 28.

Slice of Life Story Challenge

DAY 26 OF THE MARCH SOLSC! #SOLSC19

It's a great day to connect with new slicers as you scroll through the comments or revisit our padlet!

Belief Statements · big picture · compliment · conferring

Acknowledging Writers to Disturb the Universe

In writing workshop, we operate on multiple levels-- we try to plan and deliver effective minilessons, we try to confer with our writers (and take some notes?), we create anchor charts, and so forth.  But what about validating the voices of our student writers? Here are a few tips for disturbing the universe...