Welcome to our Resource Hub! Here you’ll find a growing collection of tools and materials designed to support your learning and leadership in literacy. You’ll find recordings of past webinars, event resources, newsletters, and other helpful materials to revisit, share, and apply in your work. We hope these resources continue to inspire collaboration, deepen understanding, and support lasting impact for educators across Utah.
Dyad Reading: Accelerating Reading Growth in 15 Minutes Per Day
Dr. Lisa Brown
In this practical, classroom-focused session, Dr. Brown brings her research to life by showing how dyad reading can be used right away to support third-grade readers. Drawing on findings from her 2017 study, The Effects of Dyad Reading and Text Difficulty on Third-Graders’ Reading Achievement, she will break down what works, why it works, and how text difficulty plays a critical role in student success. Participants will leave with concrete strategies for pairing students, selecting appropriate texts, and structuring partner reading to boost engagement and achievement—especially for students who need additional support. The session will also include time to reflect, ask questions, and consider how this approach could be applied in your own classroom.
Content-Area Reading Instruction—Research to Practice
Dr. Nancy Walker
As students encounter increasingly complex texts across disciplines, educators must intentionally integrate literacy instruction into content-area teaching. This session explores how principles from the Science of Reading can inform practices across content areas. Participants will examine how structured literacy foundations-vocabulary, morphology, background knowledge building, and comprehension strategies-support students’ ability to read, analyze, and learn from complex texts. Research-informed instructional routines and classroom strategies will be provided for immediate classroom use.
Help! My Students Can’t Write…Advancing Thinking Through Writing
Amy Mahoney
Are your students struggling to write? We will look at the Science of Writing, LETRS strategies, and use a guide to advancing thinking through writing in all subjects and grades. We will focus on carefully sequencing instruction, building from sentences to compositions. Using picture word strategy, sentence builders, Dr. Anita Archer explicit instruction strategies, two column notes, top-down topic webs, and The Writing Revolution methods you will leave with a clear understanding of how to intentionally plan writing across all subject areas.
Making Words Stick: A Four-Step Instructional Routine
Dr. Katie Pace Miles
In this webinar we will explore the research and best practices for making words stick so that they can be automatically retrieved. Teachers will learn how to connect decoding, encoding, and meaning through a four-step, research-based, classroom-tested routine that accelerates students’ abilities to lift words off the page and capture them in reading and writing.
Small Shifts, Big Impact: Practical Strategies for Supporting Multilingual Students
Shannon Bowles
In this webinar, we will explore high-leverage instructional moves that make an immediate difference in student learning. This session focuses on practical, classroom-ready strategies that increase access to grade-level content while maintaining rigor. Participants will discuss how structured literacy, including explicit phonics and language instruction, supports multilingual learners in building strong foundational skills and academic language. You will leave with clear, actionable approaches that strengthen vocabulary and language development and improve outcomes for multilingual students.
Effective Practices for Engaging Students in Decodable Text
Dr. Maria Murray
Decodable texts play a critical role in helping beginning and struggling readers develop accurate and automatic word reading. In this virtual presentation, educators will gain a clear understanding of what decodable texts are, why they matter, and how to use them effectively within structured literacy instruction. Participants will explore practical strategies for matching texts to students’ phonics knowledge, guiding students during decoding, building reading stamina, and supporting accuracy and automaticity. With an emphasis on intentional practice and immediate classroom application, this session equips educators with effective practices for engaging students in decodable text while strengthening foundational reading skills.
The End of Leveled Reading
Dr. Timothy Shanahan
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Timothy Shanahan about his new book, Leveled Reading, Leveled Lives. In this webinar, Dr. Shanahan will examine the origins of the “instructional level” concept and the leveled reading practices it inspired. He will unpack the research behind these approaches and highlight the shifts educators must make if we truly aim to raise reading achievement.
Calibrating Comprehension: Making Sense of Standards, Curriculum, and High-Leverage Practices
Dr. Jake Downs
Many teachers feel like core standards, curricular materials, and best practices pull them in different directions. This session takes a ‘have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too’ approach to show how these elements can be wrangled and aligned to promote text-based meaning-making for elementary readers.
The Power of Oral Language and Reading Comprehension
Jeanne Schopf
This session explores how oral language development strengthens reading comprehension in secondary classrooms. Educators will learn practical strategies to foster meaningful discussions, use text-dependent questions, and structure partner, small-group, and whole-class conversations that build critical thinking, academic language, and student engagement.
LETRS Authors Q&A
Dr. Louisa Moats
Join Dr. Louisa Moats, lead author and creator of LETRS, for an exclusive Q&A session designed especially for educators who have completed or are currently engaged in LETRS. Bring your most pressing questions to deepen your understanding of the science of reading and strengthen your instructional impact. With her unparalleled expertise, Dr. Moats will guide us in applying research-based practices to improve literacy outcomes for all students.
Securing Your Literacy Core
Dr. Stacey Bain
Learn how to strengthen daily Tier 1 instruction and coherence across materials, time, and teaching to achieve system-wide literacy success.
Level Up Your Phonics Instruction
Lindsay Kenemy
Are you ready to take your phonics instruction to the next level? Join 1st grade teacher and author Lindsay Kemeny, to discover ways to boost engagement and learning in your phonics lesson. Learn how to increase student participation and implement effective routines and transitions to increase the learning for all students.