Joan Novelli

Joan Novelli is a writer, editor, and content developer with extensive experience in educational publishing. According to publisher and retail listings for Week-By-Week Phonics Packets, she was a former classroom teacher, reading specialist, and editor with Scholastic Inc., and she has worked in educational publishing for more than 20 years.

Her published work includes Week-By-Week Phonics Packets and other Scholastic titles such as Easy-to-Make Books That Target Specific Reading Needs (co-author), Shoe Box Learning Centers: Phonics, Teaching With Favorite Cynthia Rylant Books, Building Foundations in Math: Shapes, and 40 Sensational Sight Word Games. Secondary book listings also describe her broader work as spanning higher education communications, PreK–12 publishing, and freelance editorial work for organizations including Scholastic, Curriculum Associates, Disney, Pearson, Sesame Workshop, TIME for Kids, and the Southern Poverty Law Center.