This is a great link and using my mosaic strategies I connected it to
another book I am reading called The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle.
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From: "Philena Pugh" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Mosaic Digest, Vol 31, Issue 2
Here's the link that I found to the chapter.
http://books.heinemann.com/shared/onlineresources%5CE02123%5CNewkirk02123REV_sample.pdf
Regards,
Philena
Today's Topics:
1. WOW! WOW! WOW! Newkirk! (Beverlee Paul)
2. Re: WOW! WOW! WOW! Newkirk! (Heather Green)
3. Re: WOW! WOW! WOW! Newkirk! (Waingort Jimenez, Elisa)
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6. Re: WOW! WOW! WOW! Newkirk! (Stewart, L)
7. Re: Vocabulary help (Carol Carlson)
8. Re: Vocabulary help (Ruth Devoll)
9. Re: WOW! WOW! WOW! Newkirk! (Kieman Holland-Anderson)
10. Re: Vocabulary help (Carol Carlson)
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Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 23:00:01 -0700
From: Beverlee Paul <[email protected]>
Subject: [MOSAIC] WOW! WOW! WOW! Newkirk!
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I've often been accused of using too many words. Well, for once, I'm
speechless! What an incredible evening I've had. I received the e-ad
for
Thomas Newkirk's new book, Holding On to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad
Ones -
Six Literacy Principles Worth Fighting For from Heinemann. Gave it a
glance
and almost accidentally decided to print out the sample chapter. I read
it
tonight - OH MY GOSH, as morning show radio DJs would say! I was
immediately transported to those first years when Donald Murray and
Donald
Graves and Thomas Newkirk and Nancie Atwell and Lucy Calkins first sprung
into my life.
This chapter, "Finding a Language for Difficulty - Silences in Our
Teaching
Stories," is one of the most powerful pieces of inspired writing I've
read
in years, perhaps decades. His writing takes you right into his head and
into the "small moments" he describes. He "gets it." He doesn't teach
what
I do, he doesn't work with students the age of mine, his climate is far
different than mine, his state was a different color than mine...and yet
Thomas Newkirk can cut through all the differences and zoom into your
very
heart and soul.
I can't tell you how intense the chapter is, but what I can tell you is
that
none of you out there would find this chapter irrelevant or unimportant.
I
can't help wanting to shout it from the rooftops, "He gets it. He gets
it.
He gets it!" I can't wait to talk about it with someone.
What a night! I "heart" you, Thomas Newkirk!
Bev in Nebraska
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Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 06:38:03 -0500
From: Heather Green <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] WOW! WOW! WOW! Newkirk!
To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group"
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Is there a way we can print out or read the chapter you're talking about?
Where do I find it? Thanks!
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