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 |  | Nancy Frey, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Literacy in the School of Teacher Education at San Diego State University. Before joining the university faculty, Nancy was a public school teacher in Florida where she taught students at the elementary and middle school level. She worked at the state level for the Florida Inclusion Network helping districts design systems for supporting students with disabilities in the general education classroom. She has co-authored books on literacy such as English Learners in the English Classroom, published by NCTE, Improving Adolescent Literacy: Strategies at Work and Reading for Information in Elementary. Nancy presents workshops for schools, districts, and national organizations on content area literacy, English learners in the English classroom, curriculum design, graphic novels, differentiation, and secondary reading intervention. |
Selected Presentations by Nancy Frey
Presentation Topics
| Nancy Frey is available to present on the following topics: Content Area Literacy (elementary and secondary); Graphic Novels; English Learners in the English Classroom; Coaching; Curriculum Design; Differentiation; Secondary Reading and Intervention
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Sample Workshop Presentations
| Nancy Frey presents workshops for K-12 teachers and administrators on these topics: Content Literacy Strategies that Work; Improving Thinking and Writing Through Instruction; Developing Literate Behaviors; and Not Your Father’s Comic Books: Graphic Novels in the Secondary Classroom.
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Selected Presentations
| Nancy Frey is a frequent presenter at national conventions including ASCD, IRA, and NCTE. |
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Nancy Frey's Published Works
What Does It Take to Create Skilled Readers? Facilitating the Transfer and Application of Literacy Strategies
|  In this article, Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey provide examples of how middle school teachers can create skilled readers through the transfer and application of literacy strategies. |
Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels: Page by Page, Panel by Panel
|  Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey contributed two chapters in this book--"Altering English: Re-examining the Whole Class Novel and Making Room for Graphic Novels and More" and "Using Graphic Novels, Anime, and the Internet in an Urban High School." |
Language Learners in the English Classroom
|  This book is designed as a tool to guide English teachers in designing powerful lessons that accelerate the achievement of students who are learning English. It also helps English teachers play a role in helping ELLs achieve academic success across disciplines. Nancy co-authored this book with Doug Fisher. |
"What's the Gist?" Summary Writing for Struggling Adolescent Writers
|  With specific focus on précise writing, the GIST (Generating Interaction between Schemata and Text) learning strategy was used to increase comprehension of expository texts in this 2003 Voices from the Middle article by Nancy. |
Using Graphic Novels, Anime, and the Internet in an Urban High School
|  In this December 2003 English Journal article, urban ELL and native English speakers were encouraged to improve their written communication by using forms of popular culture not found in schools. (2004 recipient of the Kate and Paul Farmer Award for Outstanding Writing) |
Additonal Books
| Nancy Frey is the author of several books, including books on visual literacy, assessment, improving adolescent literacy, better structured teaching, and more across the grade levels. |
Journal Articles
| Nancy Frey has published articles on assessment, creating a literacy framework, improving writing in middle school, and retention. |
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Related Resources
Education and Professional Experience
| Nancy Frey has a Ph.D in Education with an emphasis in reading and language, in addition to her Masters in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis on reading and language arts. Nancy has an undergraduate degree in special education. She is also the recipient of several national awards. |
ELL Pathways
|  ELL Pathways is an online professional development opportunity for teachers, coaches and administrators to develop understanding and skills in working with English language learners. Essential questions, video clips, related readings and tools for classroom application guide individuals or groups in an investigation of how to increase achievement levels of ELL students. |
Teaching English Language Learners Kit
|  Featuring the book Closing the Achievement Gap by Yvonne Freeman, David Freeman, and Sandra Mercuri, this kit provides the guiding principles and practices for supporting literacy development of long-term and limited formal-schooling ELL students in middle and high school. |
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