Jake Downs

School of Teacher Education and Leadership

Assistant Professor


Jake Downs

Contact Information

Office Location: EDUC 388
Phone: 435-797-0342
Email: jake.downs@usu.edu

Awards

2024 Emerging Scholar, 2024

Reading Hall of Fame


    Publications | Book Chapters

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Journal Articles

Academic Journal

  • Downs, J., (2025). Exploring the Instructional Effectiveness of High-Growth K-2 Teacher Teams in Foundational Reading..
  • Downs, J., (2025). Promoting Fluency Through Challenge: Repeated Reading With Texts of Varying Complexity..
  • Downs, J., (2025). Complex text and fluency: Evaluating the read like us protocol with third and fourth grade students.
  • Downs, J., (2024). A Multilevel Meta-Analysis of Synchronous Paired Oral Reading Techniques in Elementary Classrooms.

Professional Journal

    An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

    Publications | MultiMedia

    Audio

    • Downs, J., (2026). Pragmatic Differentiation for Reading Acceleration with Dr. Sharon Walpole.. *
    • Downs, J., (2025). AI and the Future of Writing Instruction with Dr. Steve Graham. *
    • Downs, J., (2025). Does Science of Reading Legislation Improve Reading Outcomes with Dr. Katherine O’Donnell. *
    • Downs, J., (2025). Evaluating Advanced Phonemic Awareness with Dr. Michael Coyne.. *
    • Downs, J., (2025). Is Comprehension Instruction Getting Better? with Dr. Phil Capin . *
    • Downs, J., (2025). Linking Automaticity, Vocabulary, and Text With Dr. Freddy Hiebert. *
    • Downs, J., (2025). Morphology Instruction with Dr. Danielle Colenbrander. *
    • Downs, J., (2025). Practices of Effective K-2 Teacher Teams with Dr. Jake Downs. *
    • Downs, J., (2025). Science of Reading for English Language Learners with Dr. Steve Amendum.. *
    • Downs, J., (2025). Stopping the Summer Slide with Dr. Blythe Anderson and Dr. John Strong. *
    • Downs, J., (2025). Strategic Assessment Systems with Dr. Adrea Truckenmiller and Dr. Eunsoo Cho. *
    • Downs, J., (2025). Transforming Comprehension: Main Ideas, Text Structures, and Teaching Techniques with Dr. Kay Wijekumar. *

    An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

    Publications | Other

    An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

    Teaching

    ELED 3100 - Classroom Reading Instruction, Spring 2026
    ELED 3100 - Classroom Reading Instruction, Spring 2026
    ELED 3100 - Classroom Reading Instruction, Fall 2025
    ELED 3100 - Classroom Reading Instruction, Fall 2025
    ELED 3100 - ELED 3100 - Elementary Classroom Reading Instruction, Fall 2025
    TEAL 7323 - Literacy Education Teacher Training and Development, Spring 2025
    TEAL, TEAL, TEAL, TEAL, TEAL, TEAL, TEAL, TEAL, TEAL, TEAL, TEAL 7323, 7323, 7323, 7323, 7323, 7323, 7323, 7323, 7323, 7323, 7323 - Literacy Education Teacher Training and Development, Spring 2025
    TEAL 7323 - TEAL 7323 - Literacy Education Teaching Training and Development, Spring 2025
    ELED 3100 - Classroom Reading Instruction, Fall 2024
    TEAL 7820 - Seminar: Special Topics in Teacher Education and Leadership, Summer 2024
    ELED 3100 - Classroom Reading Instruction, Spring 2024
    ELED 4030 - Teaching Language Arts (CI), Fall 2023
    ELED, ELED 4030, 4031 - Teaching Language Arts (CI), Fall 2023
    ELED 3100 - Classroom Reading Instruction, Spring 2023
    ELED 3100 - Classroom Reading Instruction, Spring 2023

    Creative Works | Other

    • Informational Writing and Academic Language, Other, Audio Podcast - 2024

    Graduate Students Mentored

    Ashlena Johnson, August 2026
    Jessica Aiello, August 2024
    Lacie VanDam, May 2024
    Whitney Bowman, Teacher Education & Leadership, October 2023
    Whitney Bowman, August 2022 - June 2025