Nancy Young, Ed.D.
Reading | Writing | Learning

General Reading &
Writing Resources

Nancy Young, Ed.D.
Reading | Writing | Learning

General Reading &
Writing Resources

The New book

co-edited by Nancy Young and Jan Hasbrouck

Climbing THE LADDER OF READING & WRITING

Meeting the Needs of ALL Learners

Chapters on general reading and writing instruction in Climbing THE LADDER OF READING & WRITING:
Meeting the Needs of ALL Learners

Ch. 2: A Closer Look (Nancy Young)

Ch. 3: Instructional Implications (Margie Gillis/Nancy Young)

Ch. 4: Data-Informed Instruction (Jan Hasbrouck)

Ch. 5: Managing Differentiated Instruction (Vicki Gibson)

Ch. 14: Older Students (Christy Austin/Elizabeth Stevens/Sharon Vaughn)

Ch. 18: Home-School Connections (Amy Fleisher/Julie Bedell)

Ch. 19: Technology (Kathleen Puckett)

Ch. 20: Teacher Development (Tiffany Peltier/Erin Washburn)

Chapters on environmental factors that can impact reading and writing instruction in Climbing THE LADDER OF READING & WRITING: Meeting the Needs of ALL Learners

Ch. 15: Variations of English (Kymyona Burk/Casey Sullivan Taylor)

Ch. 16: Multilingual Learners (Gairan Pamei/Zebedee Cheah/Jing Tong Ong/Catherine McBride)

Ch. 17: Socioeconomic Factors (Steve Dykstra)

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Additional Recommended Books

Reading

Closing the Vocabulary Gap
Quigley, Alex (2018).

Language at the Speed of Sight: How We Read, Why So Many Can’t, and What Can Be Done About It.
Seidenberg, M. (2017).

The Cognitive Foundations of Reading and Its Acquisition: A Framework with Applications Connecting Teaching and Learning
Hoover, W., & Tunmer, W. (2020).

Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention.
Dehaene, S. (2009).

 

Writing

Powerful Writing Strategies for All Students.
Harris, K. Graham, S., Mason, L., Friedlander, B. (2008).

​Teacher’s Guide to Effective Sentence Writing
Saddler, B. (2012).

 

Differentiating Instruction

A Teacher’s Guide to Flexible Grouping and Collaborative Learning. Brulles, D. & Brown, K. (2018)

 

 

 

Videos / Articles / Reports

Statistical Learning 

Statistical Learning Is Related to Reading Ability in Children and Adults. 

The impact of language experience on language and reading: A statistical learning approach.  

Differentiation:

​A Longitudinal Cluster-randomized Controlled Study On the Accumulating Effects of Individualized Literacy Instruction
on Students’ Reading from First Through Third Grade.

Beyond the Reading Wars: Exploring the Effect of Child-instruction Interactions on Growth in Early Reading.

Differentiated Literacy Instruction: Boondoggle or Best Practice?

Individualizing Student Instruction in Reading: Implications for Policy and Practice.

​Individualizing Teaching in Beginning Reading.

Meta‐analysis Findings on Grouping Programs.

Preschool Instruction and Children’s Emergent Literacy Growth.

Reading Comprehension and Fluency Levels Range Across Diverse Classrooms:
The Need for Differentiated Reading Instruction and Content.

Writing:

Changing How Writing is Taught.

POW Plus TREE Equals Powerful Opinion Essays.

​Sentence Combining.

Teaching elementary school students to be effective writers: A practice guide.

​The Effects of Peer-Assisted Sentence-Combining: Instruction on the Writing Performance of More and Less Skilled Young Writers.

Using Self-Regulated Strategy Development to Support Students Who Have “Trubol Giting Thangs Into Werds”.

​Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle and High Schools.

​Writing a True Sentence: Developing Syntactical Sophistication through Sentence-level Writing Instruction.

General:

Ending the Reading Wars: Reading Acquisition From Novice to Expert.

​Morphemes Matter: A Framework for Instruction.

​Read About It: Scientific Evidence for Effective Teaching of Reading.

​The Massive Impact of Literacy on the Brain and its Consequences for Education.

​Video on How the Brain Learns to Read – Dr. Stanislas Dehaene.

Assessment:

​Understanding and Assessing Fluency (Jan Hasbrouck).

​Fluency Norms Chart (Hasbrouck & Tindal 2017 Update).

 

Websites / Online Resources