Contact Information

Sharlayne Overton

Whiteboard Publishing

P.O. Box 748

Prosser, WA 99350

About the Author

Sharlayne Overton

Sharlayne Overton graduated from Central Washington University located at Ellensburg, Washington in 1979 with a Degree in Language Arts. She received her Master's Degree from Heritage College in 1991. Sharlayne began her teaching career in 1980. She has taught second grade through sixth grade, special reading and remedial math. She currently teaches fourth grade in Washington State.

Sharlayne was chosen to work with nine other teachers alongside Nikki Elliot Shuman to help create the writing prompts for the fourth grade portion of the Washington Assessment of Student Learning. In the year 2005, she was one of 10 teachers chosen to help with range finding for the narrative scoring guidelines for the fourth grade WASL.

Having given the WASL for many years, Sharlayne is very familiar with the writing standards that students must achieve, and knows that these standards are nationwide. Her goal was to create lessons that would enhance what teachers are currently using as best practices for teaching writing in their classrooms.