Short's monographs include: Extend Your Students’ Reach and Move Them Toward Independence, Base Your ESL Instruction in the Content Areas, Reach for the Common Core, Structural Supports for English Learners, Comprehensive and Responsive Assessment, and Developing Academic Literacy in Adolescents, Differentiate Instruction.

She recently served on TESOL’s Board of Directors.ĭr. She taught English as a new language in New York, California, Virginia, and the DR Congo. Publications include ESL textbooks for National Geographic Learning/Cengage, professional journal articles, and SIOP Model books. She has directed research and program evaluations on English learners for the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Rockefeller Foundation, U.S. At the Center for Applied Linguistics, she co-developed the research-validated SIOP Model. Short directs Academic Language Research & Training and provides professional development on academic literacy, content-based ESL, and sheltered instruction worldwide. Frey's monographs include: Reaching for the Common Core, Using Technology to Foster Learning for a New Century, Link to 21st Century Skills and Resources, and Connect Oral and Written Expression, Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension, and Content.ĭr. She also was a third grade classroom teacher.ĭr. Frey teaches a variety of courses on reading instruction and literacy in content areas, classroom management, and supporting students with diverse learning needs. She has co-authored more than fifty books on English Learners (Language Learners in the English Classroom), assessment (Checking for Understanding), writing (Scaffolded Writing Instruction), literacy (Reading for Information in Elementary School) and vocabulary (Learning Words Inside and Out).

Frey has published in The Reading Teacher, English Journal, Remedial and Special Education, and Educational Leadership. NEW ‘Test Prep’ section prepares for high-stakes standardized tests, including IELTS and TOEFL.Nancy Frey, Ph.D., a Professor at San Diego State University received the 2008 Early Career Achievement Award from the National Reading Conference.NEW Guided online writing practice takes students through the writing process.EXPANDED ‘Building Better Sentences’ moves from editing to sentence writing and finishes with sentence combining for more refined writing.EXPANDED ‘Building Better Vocabulary’ highlights academic words, word associations, collocations, word forms, and vocabulary for writing.UPDATED ‘Academic Writing Models’ encourage students to analyze and use the features of great writing in their own work.NEW National Geographic images and content spark students’ imaginations.We need to remember that any paragraph or essay is only as good as the words and sentences within. It’s important for us to take a step back and remember that words make sentences, and sentences make paragraphs and eventually essays.

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