Cunningham, Patricia

Patricia M. Cunningham, PhD, is a professor of education at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. After graduating from the University of Rhode Island, she taught first and fourth grades and remedial reading in elementary grades in Florida and Indiana. After teaching at Ohio University and serving as director of reading for Alamance County Schools (North Carolina), she went to Wake Forest University to direct the Elementary Education program. Pat is the author of Phonics They Use: Words for Reading and Writing, currently in its sixth edition. Along with Richard Allington, sh...