Read Alouds for All Learners: A Comprehensive Plan for Every Subject, Every Day, Grades PreK–8 (Learn the step-by-step instructional plan for Read Alouds for All Learners)

• A comprehensive, step-by-step plan for read alouds in every subject. Molly Ness gives PreK-8 teachers a three-step planning process for read alouds that build literacy development, content-area knowledge, and social-emotional learning, every day, in every subject.
• Grounded in the science of reading. Explains the research-backed role read alouds play in the science of reading, showing why the practice has been fading from classrooms and what that absence costs students' comprehension, vocabulary, and verbal reasoning.
• Built for every grade band and every subject area. Provides current read-aloud research and trends across elementary, middle, and high school, with age-specific tips for social-emotional learning and cognition in every content area, not just the literacy block.
• From a leading voice in reading research. Written by Dr. Molly Ness, a former classroom teacher, reading researcher, and 16-year teacher educator at Fordham University, whose work focuses on reading comprehension and dyslexia.
• From Solution Tree, a practical companion for literacy-focused classrooms. Complements Solution Tree's broader science-of-reading resources for teachers, curriculum designers, and literacy coaches building comprehensive PreK-8 literacy instruction.

Molly Ness is a former classroom teacher, a reading researcher, and a teacher educator. She spent sixteen years as an associate professor of childhood education at Fordham University, where she taught literacy methods coursework and doctoral courses in language, literacy, and learning. Her research focuses on reading comprehension, teachers’ instructional decisions, and dyslexia. In 2022, Molly joined Learning Ally as the vice president of academic content.
Molly serves on the board of directors for the International Literacy Association and on the elementary advisory panel for Penguin Random House. She began her career as a middle school teacher in Oakland, and she has worked as a diagnostic reading clinician. She is a staff member of The Windward Institute. Her publications have appeared in Pediatrics, The Reading Teacher, Reading and Writing, the Journal of Research in Childhood Education, and Psychology Today. In 2019, Molly began the End Book Deserts podcast to bring attention to the issue of book access and equity. Committed to literacy as an issue of social justice, she cofounded the Coalition for Literacy Equity in 2022. As the author of four books, she frequently speaks and presents at regional and national conferences.
Molly graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins University. She earned a master’s degree in English education and a doctorate in reading education from the University of Virginia.