James Charnock, M.Ed, a teacher of 30 years at the elementary and junior high levels, is the author of many articles (some included herein) that have appeared in teacher magazines and professional journals.  A Non-Workbook, Non-Textbook Approach to Teaching Language Arts (Grades 4-8 and Up) is his second book.  He has written one other book, Mt. Horeb: The Little White School House on Little Deer Creek, about the memories and 180-year history of one of Maryland’s last one-room schoolhouses, which he attended as a primary student; it is also a treatise on the issue of smaller schools.

                In addition to creating educationally oriented market products, he was for several years a feature writer for a national reading journal (The Reading Teacher of the International Reading Association) and has served on the editorial board of a national English journal (Language Arts of the National Council of Teachers of English). He has always preferred the action of the classroom, and as a certified reading-language arts specialist, has also served as a mentor teacher.

             Former students have honored him four times (less than one percent of teachers are so honored even twice) by placing him in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers—“The best teachers in America selected by the best students.”  They chose him as “the teacher who made a difference.”  He has also been listed in Who’s Who in the East.

             Mr. Charnock lives in a suburb of Philadelphia where he continues as a freelance writer, often serving as a conference seminar speaker on the teaching of writing.  He also volunteers his time to the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity and teaches an adult course in paper art.