Elaine M. Czarnecki is a literacy consultant with the firm Resources in Reading in Annapolis, Maryland. She teaches for Johns Hopkins University and is a former elementary school based reading specialist. She provides professional development in the area of emergent literacy to children s librarians across Maryland and has given similar workshops in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Since 2001 she has provided consulting services for a variety of library initiatives, including the Emergent Literary Training Assessment Project. She has coauthored two articles for Public Librarie...