The Literacy Coaching Menu of Services
Dear Teachers:
Below you will find a menu of services or possible ways that I can help you in your
literacy efforts this year. Consider which of these services would be most helpful to you.
Please place a check before the “menu items” you are definitely interested in and a
question mark before those about which you would like to learn more.
I look forward to working with you this year!
Name ______________________________
___Getting acquainted classroom visit
___Coplanning lessons
___Demonstration lessons in your classroom or observing in another teacher’s classroom
___Side-by-side coaching/team teaching
___Viewing instructional videos and planning implementation of new strategies
___Classroom visit to help brainstorm ways to work with a coach
___Brainstorm ways to conference with each student during the writing process
___Brainstorm ways to conference with each student during independent reading time
___Help to organize/arrange classroom environment and/or schedule to make it more
conducive to meet your instructional goals
___Provide support and assistance with reading/writing instruction, assessment, and data
analysis
___Comprehension Instruction (i.e. minilesson, guided reading, Read Aloud)
___Provide support and assistance with parent conferences
___Other
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The best time for me to meet with you is (please write the time in the blank)
___before school
___after school
___planning time
___other
Adapted from Pam Jackson
Practical Literacy Coaching: A Collection of Tools to Support Your Work by Jan Miller
Burkins. 2009 International Reading Association.