SOLSC: Day 3 of 31
Welcome to the third day of our month-long writing challenge! Please link your Slice of Life Story to this post by leaving a comment (scroll to the bottom of this post) before 11:59… Read More
Category Archive: Write: It’s good for you!
SOLSC: Day 2 of 31
Welcome to the second day of our month-long writing challenge! Please link your Slice of Life Story to this post by leaving a comment (scroll to the bottom of this post) before 11:59… Read More
SOLSC: Day 1 of 31
Welcome to the first day of our month-long writing challenge! Please link your Slice of Life Story to this post by leaving a comment (scroll to the bottom of this post) before 11:59… Read More
SOLSC Inspiration
Looking for ways to get your class inspired about the upcoming Slice of Life Story Challenge? Here are a few ideas: 1. Send a letter home like I posted on Sunday. Be sure… Read More
Ruth’s Slice of Life: A Nearly Perfect Moment
Sun streaming in Watching my students Pencils moving Thoughts swarming Ideas evolving Lives changing
Writerly Things to Do on February Break
Are you off from work this week? Are you looking for ways to nurture your inner writer? If so, then here’s a little list I made, which may (or may not) appeal to… Read More
Progress in the Writing Circle
Remember that group of kids I wrote about who I decided to take upstairs for weekly lunches on Tuesdays? Well, the five of us didn’t meet last week because the entire class watched… Read More
Why Memoir Monday?
When I giggle at my goal as a fifth grader to write a story a day, collecting thick purple folders of words and pictures, stapled into books, I remember the process of learning to… Read More
The Big Picture Series: Teacher as Writer
“If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will not know the fears and hopes of the writers you teach.”… Read More
Online Writer’s Notebook
No longer will you see my weekly Memoir Mondays and Slice of Life Story Challenge pieces on this blog. (I haven’t stopped writing… don’t worry!) I’ll now be keeping those stories at 365… Read More
Ruth’s Memoir Monday: High School Art Class.
I walk into my favorite class of the day, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are floating through the air, She grew up in an Indiana town, with a good lookin’ mama who was never ’round,… Read More
Ruth’s Memoir Monday: Christmas is Coming!
Edited: This is a digital layout created using Photoshop Elements (download a free 30 day trial version here) for a class I’m taking from JessicaSprague.com called Up and Running with Photoshop (it’s a self-paced course and on… Read More
New Buttons.
Now if these don’t inspire you to participate in this week’s challenges, then I don’t know what will! Feel free to use these buttons for your Memoir Monday and Slice of Life Tuesday… Read More
Weekly Challenges
Some writers live a solitary life. Many write in isolation and put their work out into the world only when they feel it’s, well, perfect. As a reader of the Two Writing Teachers… Read More
Ruth’s Memoir Monday: Thanksgiving
Growing up, we traveled deep into the hills of the Ozarks in Arkansas for Thanksgiving dinner with my grandparents. We used to sing, “Through the river and over the hills to Grandma’s house… Read More
Day in a Sentence
Kevin just posted a second call for this week’s Day in a Sentence. I see he’s experiencing the same thing with his weekly challenge that we are with ours… less participation than usual.… Read More
Stacey’s Slice of Life Story (SOLS)
E.R. Visit – A Slice of My Day Originally uploaded by teachergal I wrote this SOLS when I was in the E.R. this afternoon (it’s a little after 9 p.m. right now). It’s… Read More
Response PLEASE!
I was asked to submit a piece of writing for a little newsletter the All-Write Consortium is putting together. The focuse for this issue is Why Workshop? So I refined a poem that… Read More
We all have lots of small moments to write about!
I went through “My Pictures” Folder this morning and located a sleuth of photographs that capture some of the small, ordinary moments of my life during the past year. I put it into… Read More
I Love to Write Day… on a Saturday?
I got so excited about I Love To Write Day when I heard about it!!!!!! However, when I went to the organization’s website, I discovered that this year’s I Love to Write Day,… Read More
