Janet Angelillo is a literacy consultant who has worked throughout the US and Canada. She was a senior staff developer for the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project and worked beside teachers in New York City schools and the surrounding suburbs. She has taught advanced sections and given keynote addresses at both the Teachers College Summer Institutes and other institutes around the country, and she has presented at many conferences, including NCTE, IRA, and the New York State, Connecticut and Delaware Reading Associations.

A classroom teacher for many years, Janet taught upper grades and middle school in NYC and the suburbs. She the author of several articles on writing, as well as three books, Writing About Reading: From Book Talk to Literary Essays in Grades 3-8 (Heinemann), A Fresh Approach to Teaching Punctuation: Helping Young Writers Use Conventions with Precision and Purpose (Scholastic), and Making Revision Matter: Strategies for Guiding Students to Focus, Organize, and Strengthen Their Writing Independently (Scholastic). Her latest book is Writing to Prompts: When Students Don’t Have a Choice (Heinemann).