Description
Claudia Cornett is a Professor Emerita at Wittenberg University. During her twenty-four year tenure at Wittenberg, she taught graduate and undergraduate courses in all aspects of literacy, children's literature, and arts integration. She also directed the Education Department's Reading Center. In recognition of her work, the Wittenberg's Alumni Association honored her with the Distinguished Teaching Award. Before moving to the college level, Claudia taught grades 18, served a reading specialist, and earned a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from Miami University.
Claudia has written numerous books and articles about how and why the arts should be considered integral teaching and learning tools, and has publications in the fields of bibliotherapy, the strategic use of humor, and different components of literacy. In the latter category, her most recent book is entitled Comprehension First: Inquiry into Big Ideas and Important Questions (Holcomb Hathaw
