Articles, webinar recordings, and practical guides for teachers, coaches, and district administrators working to strengthen literacy instruction.
The Literacy Podcast · Ep. 245
Dr. Young joins Melissa, Lori, and Jake Downs to walk through a research-backed fluency routine designed to help students reread challenging texts with purpose and confidence.
Listen →The Literacy Podcast · Ep. 209
Dr. Young breaks down why Readers' Theater is one of the most effective — and underused — approaches for building fluency and comprehension in K–5 classrooms.
Listen →Classroom Caffeine · July 15, 2025
Dr. Parsons discusses the transformative power of teachers, balancing curriculum with autonomy, student motivation, and responsive literacy instruction. Host: Lindsay Persohn.
Listen →Teaching Literacy Podcast · Ep. 43 · September 17, 2023
Dr. Margaret Vaughn and Dr. Seth Parsons discuss schoolwide action teams, MTSS, community partnerships, and core principles for getting literacy growth back on track.
Listen →Teaching Literacy Podcast · Ep. 24 · June 23, 2021
Dr. Seth Parsons discusses Principles of Effective Literacy Instruction K–5, covering 22 chapters of practical, research-backed classroom applications.
Listen →edWeb · 2024
Dr. Young demonstrates how high-impact literacy lessons can combine multiple evidence-based instructional approaches — without sacrificing engagement or joy in reading.
Watch →edWeb · 2024 · with Tim Rasinski
Dr. Young and Tim Rasinski unpack the definitions and science of fluency — and share innovative, research-backed methods for teaching it in ways that stick.
Watch →edWeb · 2023
Engaging literacy strategies for K–3 educators that are grounded in the Science of Reading and proven to work with real kids in real classrooms.
Watch →Dr. Chase Young on the opportunity cost of test preparation, and why building real readers is still the most powerful test-prep strategy we have.
Read more →Dr. Chase Young on what research says about starting the school year with community, engagement, and high expectations.
Read more →From timer-obsessed fluency checks to classrooms that leave no room for laughter — Dr. Young sounds off on the things that still drive him up the wall, and what he hopes every educator hears instead.
Read more →Dr. Chase Young shares simple, no-cost traditions — class names, chants, secret handshakes, hallway missions — that turn a group of students into a team that belongs to something.
Read more →The research on text complexity may surprise you — and change how you think about leveled reading in your schools.
Read more →A compelling case for one of the most underused fluency strategies in elementary classrooms — and a simple 5-day framework to get started.
Read more →What over 50 educators say about the "learning to read vs. reading to learn" divide — and why the real answer challenges how we structure instruction.
Read more →A practical guide to teaching phonics through integrated, connected activities that reinforce multiple skills at once — building automaticity without isolated drill.
View Guide →Engaging strategies for building students' vocabulary in ways that are memorable, playful, and grounded in the science of word learning.
View Guide →A teacher's guide to helping students unlock word meaning through roots, prefixes, and suffixes — the building blocks of the English lexicon.
View Guide →Evidence-based methods for building reading fluency in K–6 classrooms — including repeated reading, choral reading, and Readers' Theatre protocols.
View Guide →Everything you need to run an effective 5-Day Readers' Theatre cycle — scripts, protocols, and teaching tips for building fluency through performance.
View Guide →A joy-filled 6-week family literacy plan inspired by Dr. Chase Young. More laughter, more stories, more reading — no worksheets, no drills. #LFCReadingSummer2026
Learn More →Two thirds of American nine- and ten-year-olds can't read proficiently — and the people with the power to fix it can't feel the problem. A case for treating literacy as a human right.
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