Anne McGill-Franzen

Anne McGill-Franzen, Ph.D., is coauthor of No More Summer-Reading Loss, part of Heinemann's Not This But That series. Anne is a professor of education in the department of Theory and Practice in Teacher Education and director of the Reading Center at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee. She has written extensively on reading disabilities and instructional interventions to mitigate the problems faced by struggling readers and their classroom teachers. Her work has received many...See more

Anne McGill-Franzen, Ph.D., is coauthor of No More Summer-Reading Loss, part of Heinemann's Not This But That series. Anne is a professor of education in the department of Theory and Practice in Teacher Education and director of the Reading Center at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee. She has written extensively on reading disabilities and instructional interventions to mitigate the problems faced by struggling readers and their classroom teachers. Her work has received many International Reading Association honors including the Nila Banton Smith Research Dissemination Award, the Dina Feitelson Research Award in early literacy, and the Albert J. Harris Award in reading disabilities. She is the author of Kindergarten Literacy: Matching Assessment and Instruction (Scholastic, 2006) and co-editor of the Handbook of Reading Disability Research (Routledge, 2009) and Summer Reading: Closing the Rich/Poor Reading Achievement Gap (Teachers College Press, 2012). See less