Tara Smith shares how she launched, maintained, and celebrating the writing slice of life stories and comments -- all year long -- with her sixth grade students.

Hello, readers! It’s October…time for me to make my annual pitch for writing teachers everywhere to try the year round Slice of Life Project…

STARTING THE YEAR WITH SLICE OF LIFE WRITING. Monday September 22, 2014 by Tara Smith

These short narratives celebrate the ordinary One result of a three-month summer break? Students out of practice with writing, especially creative writing. To remedy that last week, I decided to in…

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Welcome to the SLICE OF LIFE Information Page. If I dismiss the ordinary — waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen — I may just miss my life. –Dani Shapiro in Still …