Sandra McCormick is a Professor Emerita and former Director of the Reading Clinic at the Ohio State University. She is an author of six previous editions of this popular text, the graduate-level textbook, Remedial and Clinical Reading Instruction (Merrill), and numerous articles on delayed readers published in Reading Research Quarterly, The Reading Teacher, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Language Arts, and other journals. Dr. McCormick has served on the Board of Directors of the International Reading Association and was coeditor, with Jerry Zutell, of the National Reading Conference Yearbook.

Jerry Zutell is a Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Reading Clinic at the Ohio State University. He is a noted researcher and writer about oral reading fluency, spelling development, and related instructional practices. He is the developer of the Directed Thinking Spelling Activity (DSTA), an innovative student-active cycle of word study instruction, and the Theme-Context-Roots-Reference-Review (TC3R) model of vocabulary instruction. Dr. Zutell is a senior author of Spell It -Write! (Zaner-Bloser, 1998), coauthor of Essential Strategies for Word Study (Scholastic, 2010), and author of the vocabulary series, Word Wisdom (Zaner-Bloser, 2005, 2013). Dr. Zutell was coeditor, with Sandra McCormick, of the National Reading Conference Yearbook.