Anne McGill-Franzen

Anne McGill-Franzen, Ph.D., 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. Her research focuses on reading disabilities, early literacy, and instructional interventions for struggling readers, and she has received multiple honors from the International Reading Association, 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, 2013). McGill-Franzen is also coauthor of No More Summer-Reading Loss, part of Heinemann’s Not This, But That series, and has written extensively on summer reading loss, poverty, and access to books as key factors in students’ reading achievement.