Judith A. Reimer

Judith A. Reimer (often credited as Judi Reimer) is an education author who co-writes professional resources for teachers with award-winning writing teacher Gretchen Bernabei. She is the coauthor of Fun-Size Academic Writing for Serious Learning: 101 Lessons & Mentor Texts—Narrative, Opinion/Argument, & Informative/Explanatory, Grades 4–9 (Corwin, 2013) and Text Structures From Fairy Tales: Truisms That Help Students Write About Abstract Concepts, Grades 4–12 (Corwin, 2019).

Through these books, Reimer focuses on practical, classroom-tested strategies that use student writing and classic fairy tales as mentor texts to help upper-elementary and secondary students develop narrative, argumentative, and analytical writing skills. Her work provides teachers with ready-to-use lessons, planning frameworks, and text structures intended to support more effective writing instruction across grades 4–12.