Jill Eggleton QSO is an international educational consultant in literacy, with a variety of teaching experiences spanning over 30 years in various New Zealand schools of varying socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. Her work with classroom teachers, and with her own grandchildren, fuels the flame and passion for rewarding and enriching literacy programs. Today's readers and writers have a greater need to be engaged in both regular and sustainable practice in oral language as well as comprehension skills. Lighting the Literacy Fire emphasises the teaching of these skills within the context of the complete literacy program. This is literacy teaching explained plainly, at its most explicit, for teachers to transfer directly into their classroom programs.
