Amy Stewart

Amy Stewart is an educator and literacy specialist focused on close reading and comprehension in the primary grades. She is the author of Little Readers, Big Thinkers: Teaching Close Reading in the Primary Grades, a professional resource that offers practical lesson sequences, classroom scenarios, and strategies for teaching close reading in grades K–2. Her work emphasizes helping young students “read like detectives,” engage in deep conversation about texts, and develop real, thoughtful reading habits through carefully structured repeated readings and text-dependent discussion.

In addition to the book itself, Stewart’s approach to instruction is referenced in professional materials on close reading that outline phases such as attending to what a text says, how it works, and what it means, reflecting her focus on purposeful, text-centered literacy instruction for early elementary learners.