Linda Lampi is a retired teacher from the San Bernardino City Unified School District. She earned her BA, teaching credential, and MA from California State University, San Bernardino. During her thirty-nine years as an educator, Mrs. Lampi held many roles. Besides being a teacher in elementary and middle schools, she also served as a resource teacher, a reading support teacher, and a bilingual facilitator. During her teaching career, Mrs. Lampi received the Arrowhead Reading Award three times from California State University, San Bernardino.

Throughout her career and into retirement, Linda Lampi specialized in teaching reading to all types of students, from remedial learners to high achievers. It all began with a simple drawing. When a group of first graders arrived in her classroom not knowing their letters, Mrs. Lampi drew a W on the board and gave it a pair of shoes. “Look,” she said. “It is Walking W.” The concept of Consonant Creatures was born. A simple drawing developed into her first phonics book in the Meet the Consonants series. From there, she brought vowels to life in the Meet the Vowels series. Mrs. Lampi even dressed all of the letters in costumes in her book, ABCs for Halloween.

Linda Lampi’s goal of making the letters easy and fun to learn resulted in her very own phonics program called Phonics Please, which includes the Meet the Consonants and Meet the Vowels series. The Phonics Please program has been used in many classrooms from kindergarten to second grade with outstanding results. Additionally, letter characters from her innovative program have been successfully introduced to preschool children as young as two years old, giving them a head start before they ever step foot in a classroom.

Linda Lampi believes that learning to read should be an adventure, not a chore. She has helped make this process fun for many children, from preschool through the primary grades. Children receive a strong start on their reading journey with Phonics Please.