Molly Ness

Molly Ness

Molly Ness, PhD, has served as a classroom teacher, reading researcher, and teacher educator. She also spent 16 years as an associate professor at Fordham University.

Dr. Ness has extensive experience in reading clinics, consulting with school districts, leading professional development, and advising school systems on research-based reading instruction. She has provided literacy leadership to nationally recognized literacy nonprofits and major educational publishers. The author of six books, she sits on the board of the World Literacy Foundation.

Dr. Ness earned her doctorate in reading education from the University of Virginia. When she is not reading and writing about reading and writing, she is driving her ice hockey-obsessed teenage daughter to the rink, learning how to fly-fish, or hiking with her poorly behaved goldendoodle.

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Presentations by Molly Ness

• Making Words Stick
• Funds of Knowledge and Their Influence on Comprehension
• A Deep Dive into the Science of Reading
• The Science of Reading in K–2 Classrooms
• The Science of Reading in 3–8 Classrooms
• Dyslexia: Separating Fact from Fiction
• Building Comprehension through Think Alouds
• Planning Effective Read Alouds across K–8 Content Areas
• Effective and Engaging Vocabulary Instruction
• Best Practices for Comprehension Instruction
• Ending Book Deserts: With Literacy and Access for All
• Growing Lifelong Readers
• Building Language Comprehension through Read Alouds
• Using Decodable Texts to Support Phonics, Fluency, and Independent Reading