Elizabeth Franco is a former NYC public school teacher and currently the lead writer and editor for the Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower. She is the co-author of numerous titles across the Units of Study series, including Persuasive Writing of All Kinds: Using Words to Make a Change, a kindergarten writing unit, and Word Detectives, a first-grade reading unit. She has also authored several stories in the Jump Rope Readers decodable series, as well as the picture book Ocean Clean-Up Crew, inspired by her own children. Liz is known especially for her state-of-the-art work developing tools that help children work more independently. She is a firm believer in the power of learning through play and has a passion for finding ways to make reading and writing both joyful and rigorous.
