Elizabeth L. Strong

Elizabeth L. Strong is an educator and coauthor of Numbers and Stories: Using Children’s Literature to Teach Young Children Number Sense, published in 2014 and focused on integrating children’s literature with early mathematics learning for young students. Her professional background centers on early and primary education, literacy, language arts, and children’s literature.

Strong’s career began as a primary/elementary classroom teacher, followed by roles as an elementary school administrator, school district primary education coordinator, and university professor. She has presented professional development sessions at international, national, provincial, and regional levels on topics related to literacy and children’s literature, with a particular emphasis on using children’s books to enrich young children’s engagement with all areas of the curriculum, including number sense and mathematics.