Gretchen Bernabei has taught middle school and high school for 28 years. An author and an educator, Gretchen’s other books include Why We Must Run with Scissors: Voice Lessons in Persuasive Writing (2001, Discover Writing Press), Reviving the Essay: How to Teach Structure Without Formula (2005, Discover Writing Press), Lightning in a Bottle (2003, Trail of Breadcrumbs), Sparklers: High Scoring Test Essays and What We Learn from Them (2007, Trail of Breadcrumbs), The Good Writer’s Guide (2006, Hampton-Brown/National Geographic School Publications) and a chapter in Teaching “The Neglected R” (2007, Heinemann). She currently lives with her husband and two children in San Antonio, Texas.
In her recent Heinemann book, Crunchtime, Gretchen Bernabei and her coauthors Jayne Hover and Cynthia Candler share the strategies they have developed for helping students be successful in the literate world and on writing tests. Growing out of their own work in Title I schools, Gretchen, Jayne, and Cynthia’s strategies have proven to be especially effective in helping ESL and special education students.
