For over thirty-five years Jack Wilde has been a classroom teacher  in  first, third and fifth grades: both self-contained and in a team setting.  He has  also taught the pedagogy of writing and reading to teachers for twenty-five years in the Literacy Institutes at the University of New Hampshire.   Jack has  presented workshops and demonstration  lessons  throughout the country and Canada.

Jack  is the author of "A Door Opens" published by Heinemann.

Writing topics:
General process/workshop approach
Genre work -- especially poetry, persuasive writing, non-standard approach to report writing, memoir, realistic fiction, essays
Approaches to revision
Conferencing -- teacher and peer
Assessment
Reading/writing connections
Writing across the curriculum

Reading topics:
Use of Mosaic strategies -- questions, connections, inferences, envisioning, synthesizing, determining importance