Rebecca Cronin is Senior Staff Developer at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University. She has spent the past 15 years with TCRWP thinking alongside teachers, coaches, and administrators around best literacy practices. She is coauthor of the Kindergarten Word Scientists, and Grades K–1Small Groups to Support Phonics in the Units of Study in Phonics series, as well as the Kindergarten Bigger Books, Bigger Reading Muscles in the Units of Study for Teaching Reading series. She finds joy in teaching children and helping them discover a love of reading and writing. Rebecca is also the proud mother to Kyla, who is herself a teacher.