Literacy's Democratic Roots

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. Introduction: Literacy and Democracy or Where I'm From
Chapter 01: Expressive Language
Chapter 02: Funds of Knowledge
Chapter 03: Transactional Model of Reading
Credo
Chapter 04: The Writing Process
Chapter 05: Translanguaging
Chapter 06: Story
Chapter 07: Multi, Multi-modal, Multi-Literacies, Multi-Genre
Chapter 08: Independent Reading
Final Reflections