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 →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 →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 →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 →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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