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Gail E. Tompkins earned her master's degree and then her doctorate in Reading/Language Arts from Virginia Tech. She began her teaching career at Miami University in Ohio, then transferred to the University of Oklahoma and finally taught at California State University in Fresno. Because of her work with preservice and practicing teachers she received numerous awards for her teaching, including the Provost's Award of Excellence in Teaching at Cal State, Fresno, and was inducted into the California Reading Association's Reading Hall of Fame. She has been writing college textbooks for over 30 years, all focused on anticipating the questions teachers might ask and providing information to make her text users the most effective teachers. Other titles she has written include Language Arts: Patterns of Practice, 9th Edition; Literacy for the 21st Century: A Balanced Approach, 6th Edition; Literacy for the Early Grad
