We welcome you to be part of the village that can teach a child to read.
Children who cannot read at grade level expectations by the end of the third grade face serious obstacles in their academic careers and experience limitations in their career opportunities.
Your participation as a reading coach can help a young student gain critical reading skills that are so vital to academic success during their time in kindergarten through the third grade (K-3).
Children who cannot read proficiently by the fourth grade face serious obstacles in their academic careers and experience limitations in their career opportunities.
Your participation as a Reading Coach can help a young student during their time in grades K-3 to gain critical reading skills that are so vital to academic success.
What is the role of a Reading Coach?
Your role as a reading coach is to review the students’ understanding and confidence in applying the reading skills taught in a specific lesson. The Reading Coach acts in the role of a mentor to the student, providing validation of the student’s effort and expressing confidence that the student making progress in becoming a Super-Reader.
The Reading Coach observes the group while students are engaged in their lesson assignments, Generally, the reading coach will monitors the level of student engagement from a distance and approach any student showing signs of disengagement or experiencing a technical problem.
A reaching coach session is commonly scheduled for every two days or twice per week. The coaching session can vary significantly based on the lesson content and the number of lessons being covered in the session.
Does the Reading Coach act as the teacher?
The Reading Coach’s role is as a facilitator in providing human feedback critical to young students. The reading coach complements the teaching instructions in the recorded lesson. As a reading coach, you can resolve any confusion in the student’s understanding of the directions provided in the recorded lesson. You can determine the best way to provide an understanding to the student. You may repeat the prompt from the recorded lesson or you could replay a specific part of a lesson to address help a student read a word or phrase. If the student is not able to read the content and notations in the lesson, you can replay the lesson segment where the teacher explains the strategy and the reading skills being taught.
How much preparation is necessary to be an effective Reading Coach for a specific lesson?
A Reading Coach must be familiar with the lesson content, the types of questions asked, and the answers to those questions. You will receive teacher versions of the workbooks that provide the correct answers, including example sentences in those lessons that have a writing component.
How do you provide training to a new reading coach?
How to get started as a Reading Coach
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