Literacy Coaching

Reading and literacy coaches are vital members of the literacy leadership team. Their roles and responsibilities are always evolving, but the goal of instructional coaching remains constant: to improve teaching and learning effectively and through authentic and collaborative opportunities.

Additional Resources for Literacy Coaches and Reading Specialists

• Literacy Coaching, Collaboration, and Leadership
  Curated by Shalonda Archibald
  RESOURCE COLLECTION
• Elementary Literacy Coaching in 2021: What We Know and What We Wonder
  Jacy Ippolito, Allison Swan Dagen, and Rita M. Bean
  ARTICLE | The Reading Teacher (free for subscribers)
• The Multiple Roles of School-Based Specialized Literacy Professionals
  POSITION STATEMENT
• Not Policies. People
  Gabriel P. DellaVecchia
  ARTICLE | The Reading Teacher (open access)
• Embedding Learning Goals Into Secondary Literacy Curriculum: Assessing and Implementing Teachers' Feedback
  Paula Di Domenico, Laurie Elish-Piper, Michael Manderino, and Susan K. L'Allier
  ARTICLE | Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (free for subscribers)
• Literacy Coaching
  Lindsay Clare Matsumura
  INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICE (member resource)
• Literacy Coaching for Change: Choices Matter
  Misty Sailors and James V. Hoffman
  BRIEF
• Using Digital Tools to Enhance Literacy Coaching
  Christine M. Leighton, Evelyn Ford-Connors, and Dana A. Robertson
  INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICE (member resource)
• “In the Room Where It Happens”: Advocacy 101 for Literacy Leaders
  Margarita Gómez, Leah Katherine Saal
  ARTICLE | The Reading Teacher (paid access)
• The Soft Skills of Communication in Literacy Leadership
  Celeste Bates and Denise Morgan
  INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICE (member resource)