Treasure Hunt Books were invented and written by Susan Kano, an author and manager with over 14 years of experience in educational publishing.
For seven years, Susan managed publishing and operations for Lexia Learning Systems, Inc., an educational software and reading curriculum publisher. During her tenure at Lexia, she managed the overhaul of a special education reading curriculum and began to manage the development of a mainstream reading curriculum.
For three years, Susan managed publishing for The Writers’ Express, where her team developed a complete set of teacher guides and student workbooks for grades 3–8 that produced strong writing skills in classrooms.
For four years, Susan managed the development of digital ELA curriculum content for grades 6–8 for Amplify Education. The resulting daily lessons for students and instructional guides for teachers have produced improved test outcomes in reading and writing.
Due to the above experiences, Susan has an understanding of educational publishing, from concept to publication. She also has experience writing and editing tightly controlled, leveled text — i.e., text that includes limited word types, sight words, vocabulary and sentence structure.
Susan has long observed that one of the problems common to elementary readers is that they are either boring or include too many difficult words for their intended audience. She invented Treasure Hunt Books in order to overcome both problems