Regie Routman has been teaching in public schools for almost three decades. She taught almost all of the elementary grades and has been a reading specialist, a learning disabilities tutor, a Reading Recovery teacher, a language arts resource and mentor teacher, and a staff developer. Currently, she teaches and consults in schools and districts around the country doing demonstration teaching and conducting workshops. She continues to speak to educators nationally and internationally. Regie Routman's books are acclaimed by educators as providing a solid, theory-based understanding of language learning along with a wealth of useable ideas and resources. Regie's first book, Transitions: From Literature to Literacy (Heinemann, 1988) is a classic that helped countless elementary teachers make the journey to literature-based teaching and more meaning-centered approaches.