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Literacy's Democratic Roots
- Author
- Thomas Newkirk
- Narrator
- Thomas Newkirk
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Publish Date
- 8 July 2025
- Run Time
- 5 hours 54 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Tom Newkirk, lifetime educator and bestselling author of Minds Made for Stories, discusses eight powerful literacy practices—and the democratic values that connect them. Newkirk argues that “the house of literacy has a thousand doors, and our job is to help students find one that will let them in.” Yet for many students reading and writing is made unnecessarily difficult and uninviting. We need to tell a better story. Literacy’s Democratic Roots celebrates eight door-opening ideas that can help us make room for all students.
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Details
- Author
- Thomas Newkirk
- Narrator
- Thomas Newkirk
- Duration
- 5 hours 54 minutes
- Release Date
- 8 July 2025
- ISBN
- 9780325179063
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Genre
- Teaching skills and techniques, Education, Teacher training, Teaching of reading, writing and numeracy, Educational: Language, literature and literacy
Synopsis
Tom Newkirk, lifetime educator and bestselling author of Minds Made for Stories, discusses eight powerful literacy practices—and the democratic values that connect them. Newkirk argues that “the house of literacy has a thousand doors, and our job is to help students find one that will let them in.” Yet for many students reading and writing is made unnecessarily difficult and uninviting. We need to tell a better story. Literacy’s Democratic Roots celebrates eight door-opening ideas that can help us make room for all students.
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