About the Author

Amanda Arens has been in education for more than 15 years. She now works as a national consultant, providing training and support in literacy instruction. Her primary focus is Four Blocks, Big Blocks, and Building Blocks. Amanda has taught Title I, first Pat Cunningham is a professor of education at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Pat has taught first grade, fourth grade, and remedial reading and has over 30 years of teaching experience. She is involved in staff development with t Dottie Hall is a former curriculum coordinator who has taught first, second, third, and fourth grades, and at the college level. Dottie is the director of the Four-Blocks Center at Wake Forest University. She has over 30 years of teaching experience and i