Lesley Roessing

Lesley Roessing was a high school and middle level teacher in Pennsylvania for over 20 years before packing up, moving south, and becoming Director of the Coastal Savannah Writing Project and Lecturer in the College of Education of Armstrong State University, Savannah, Georgia. She has written four books for educators and students: The Write to Read: Response Journals That Increase Comprehension (Corwin Press, 2009); No More “Us” and “Them”: Classroom Lessons & Activities to Promote Peer Respect (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011); a picture and song book, Comma Quest: The Rules They Followed; The Sentences They Saved (Discover Writing, 2013), and Bridging the Gap: Reading Critically & Writing Meaningfully to Get to the Core (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014).