Topic: Tom Newkirk

Tom Newkirk reflects on the intersection between reading and freedom.

The freewriting students do is often looser and more readable than what they do on papers or essays. Tom Newkirk offers suggestions on the exercise.

How do you approach essay, poetry, book clubs, and digital composition? If we reimagine our approach we can open the door to more engaged and challenging learning.

The audiobook of Literacy's Democratic Roots: A Personal Tour Through 8 Big Ideas

A list of Heinemann professional books published in 2023.

This week on the podcast, Thomas Newkirk and Ralph Fletcher discuss Tom's new book Literacy's Democratic Roots.

As humans we have the great gift, the great evolutionary achievement, of speech and story. It’s what we do best—and all literacy instruction needs to honor and build on that gift.

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The myth of the master writer has long plagued students and teachers alike, limiting our sense of self-confidence and writerly ability. Is it possible to dispel these notions?

Heinemann authors are exemplary educators eager to support the practice of other teachers. Allow yourself the enjoyment and benefits of being read to -- by them.

In this audiobook preview, Tom describes the vast opportunity found in fiction writing, and what we lose when we don’t embrace that opportunity in our classrooms.

Heinemann is pleased to announce the latest addition to our growing line of audiobooks, Writing Unbound: How Fiction Transforms Student Writers by Thomas Newkirk.

When’s the last time your students got to write creatively? Or craft a piece of fiction that was entirely their own?

How do you approach essay, poetry, book clubs, and digital composition? If we reimagine our approach we can open the door to more engaged and challenging learning.

Learn why Tom Newkirk, author of Writing Unbound, believes he is not the ideal person to explore adolescent fiction writing but feels compelled to do it anyway.

If we want students to develop a love of books and writing, we need to bring fiction back to our writing curriculum,

Finding ways to bring fiction writing into the curriculum from Tom Newkirk, author of Writing Unbound: How Fiction Transforms Student Writers.

Today on the podcast we’re happy to welcome authors Martin Brandt and Tom Newkirk. Marty is most recently the author of Between the Commas.