Shirley Edwards has spent many years helping young children learn how to read and write. She is resourceful, innovative, and specializes in creating original and highly effective strategies designed to increase reading performance. Most importantly, she is an "active duty" Title 1 reading practitioner and understands the realities of working with struggling readers.

Linda Anderson is an inspirational and experienced primary teacher, reading specialist, ESL teacher, and Title 1 supervisor/coordinator. Shirley and Linda are energetic educators with a heartfelt enjoyment of young children. They understand efficient instructional practices which result in independent, successful readers and writers. They passionately share new reading and writing strategies that work with young, high-energy learners and which help increase student understanding, strengthen student motivation, and which greatly help students to process and retain information! Shirley and Linda are best known for their breakthrough techniques, hands-on approaches, and novel memory-enhancing activities that are teacher-friendly, easy to implement, and educationally sound! Their enthusiasm and working knowledge of the strategies and insights into the practicality and effectiveness of this remarkably powerful phonics supplement will keep this seminar fast-paced and filled with useful ideas. You will be energized and anxious to get back to class and immediately use their novel, proven, distinctive strategies!