Dr. Shane Templeton, Bio:

A former classroom teacher at the primary and secondary levels, Dr. Templeton’s research has focused on developmental word knowledge in elementary, middle, and high school students. He is widely published in a number of research and practitioner journals, and is co-author of Words Their Way; Vocabulary Their Way: Word Study for Middle and Secondary Students; and Words Their Way with English Learners. His other books include Teaching the Integrated Language Arts and Children's Literacy: Contexts for Meaningful Learning. Since 1987, Dr. Templeton has been a member of the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary. He is educational consultant on The American Heritage Children’s Dictionary and wrote the foreword to the recently-published Curious George’s Dictionary.