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Thomas Newkirk is a teacher and author who worked for 39 years at the University of New Hampshire.

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	Holding On to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones: Six Literacy Principles Worth Fighting For 4.17 avg rating — 203 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Minds Made for Stories: How We Really Read and Write Informational and Persuasive Texts 4.28 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of Slow Reading: Six Time-Honored Practices for Engagement 4.23 avg rating — 176 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Embarrassment: And the Emotional Underlife of Learning 4.09 avg rating — 149 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Misreading Masculinity: Boys, Literacy, and Popular Culture by Thomas Newkirk, Ellin Oliver Keene (Foreword) 3.90 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reading with Presence: Crafting Meaningful, Evidenced-Based Reading Responses 4.46 avg rating — 82 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writing Unbound: How Fiction Transforms Student Writers 4.50 avg rating — 42 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Teaching the Neglected "R": Rethinking Writing Instruction in Secondary Classrooms by Thomas Newkirk (Editor), Richard Burt Kent (Editor) 3.46 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nuts & Bolts: A Practical Guide to Teaching College Composition by Thomas Newkirk, Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater (Designed by), Jane Harrigan (Illustrator) 3.62 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1993	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Performance of Self in Student Writing 4.06 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“We can learn to pay attention, concentrate, devote ourselves to authors. We can slow down so we can hear the voice of texts, feel the movement of sentences, experience the pleasure of words--and own passages that speak to us. (p. 41)”
― Thomas Newkirk, The Art of Slow Reading: Six Time-Honored Practices for Engagement

tags: attention, reading, writing

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“The more degrees of freedom there are in practice, the wider the discussion and debate can be.”
― Thomas Newkirk, Holding On to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones: Six Literacy Principles Worth Fighting For

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“Yet, standardization only leads to sameness, not necessarily quality, and rarely to excellence (p. 9).”
― Thomas Newkirk, Holding On to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones: Six Literacy Principles Worth Fighting For

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