Coaching — Anytime, From Anywhere

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Coaching — anytime, from anywhere — empowers teachers

By Gina Fugnitto and Kelly Stuart

August 2021

Teaching children to read fluently is one of the major goals in early elementary classrooms, and it requires teachers to have knowledge and skills about literacy development. In the past few years, literacy experts have been calling for more attention to the research underpinning the science of reading. This evidence base has clarified that a combination of attending to systematic, explicit instruction in phonics and deep reading comprehension work is the most effective approach to teaching students from all socioeconomic backgrounds to read (Defining Movement, 2021). However, teachers don’t learn the skills or get support to use these practices. Only 51% of teacher preparation courses teach scientifically based reading instructional practices (Drake & Walsh, 2020), and professional learning is inconsistent. Although school districts spend over

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