Literacy Instruction Coaching
Reading doesn’t click by chance. We build the click.
Structured literacy in every classroom, every tier, every day: from phonemic awareness and phonics in the early grades to fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension in grades 3 through 8, coached inside the curriculum your district already owns.
25% → 86% kindergarten, one year
K–8, every tier
Inside your curriculum
Where Readers Are Made or Lost
A first grader is stuck in the middle of a sentence.
What happens in the next ten seconds is where science of reading expertise either exists in a classroom or it does not. Toggle between the two classrooms and watch the same moment go two different ways.
She stops at an unfamiliar word. Her eyes drift up to the picture, hunting for a clue.
“Just try your best,” the teacher offers kindly. “What would make sense there?”
She guesses a word that fits the picture. It is not the word on the page. The sentence moves on.
The same word appears again. She is no closer to it than she was today.
Nobody in this room did anything wrong. They were never shown what to do instead. That is not a teacher problem. It is a coaching problem.
The Case for Urgency
The science is settled. The gap is instructional.
%
of our children can learn to read at proficient and advanced levels when they receive evidence-based, systematic instruction.
What the reading research shows
%
of fourth-grade students in the United States are not yet reading at a proficient level.
2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress
The Science, In One Line
Reading = Decoding × Language Comprehension.
Two mostly-strong skills still produce a struggling reader. Both factors, taught explicitly, or the equation never works.
The Simple View of Reading (Gough & Tunmer, 1986). Our coaching builds both factors in every classroom.
How the Support Works
We strengthen the teacher and the student at the same time.
Programs do not teach students. Teachers do. So every hour of our coaching builds the teacher’s practice and the student’s skills together, in the same classrooms, on the same data. Toggle to see both sides of the same hour.
What Gets Taught
Five essentials. Taught explicitly. Left to chance nowhere.
Every strand of evidence-based reading instruction, coached in a developmental sequence. Select each essential to see what strong instruction looks like when a consultant has been in the room.
Students learn to hear, segment, and blend the individual sounds inside spoken words, the raw material of reading, taught directly rather than assumed. In a coached classroom you will see quick, daily oral drills where every student responds, not just the ones who already can.
The foundation under everythingYour Curriculum. Our Coaching.
We coach inside what you already own.
The fastest path to growth almost always runs through the programs you have already purchased. Our consultants can walk into a building running any of these on day one and coach inside it, and nothing we recommend carries a product sales agenda.
This Instruction, Measured
The same coaching. The same classrooms. One school year.
Beginning-of-year to end-of-year Acadience Reading benchmark results from our partner schools, verified against source data. This is what the coaching above produces when it runs for a full year.
Students at or above benchmark more than tripled: 30 of 35 kindergartners finished the year on track.
First graders at or above benchmark more than tripled across the year, a 47 point gain.
Three of every four second graders finished the year reading at or above benchmark, up 29 points.
And across seven partner kindergartens in a single Brooklyn district: 18% → 68% at or above benchmark in one year. Not one classroom. A system.
“This level of precision has transformed our literacy instruction from generalized remediation to strategic acceleration.”
Jenneth Santiago Lagares, Principal
P.S. 205, The Bronx
You have seen how we work. The next step takes thirty minutes.
Bring your benchmark data. A real person replies within two business days.
Every Tier, Every Student
One coherent system, from core instruction to intensive intervention.
Tier 1
Core instruction for all students
Whatever core foundational and knowledge-building programs your school has adopted, we help teachers deliver them with the explicitness, pacing, and fidelity that reach every learner in the room, including students with disabilities and multilingual learners.
Tier 2
Core extension and intervention
For students scoring below benchmark, we match evidence-based intervention to what the diagnostic data shows: targeted, small group, and connected to core instruction rather than running beside it.
Tier 3
Intensive intervention
For students well below benchmark, intervention is intensified in frequency, group size, and duration, with progress monitored continuously until the gap closes.
Worth Repeating
Send it to the educator who has been saying this all along.
Before You Call
Asked by every district we meet.
Will you coach inside the reading curriculum we already use?
Yes. Our consultants coach inside UFLI Foundations, Fundations, HMH Into Reading, Heggerty, Really Great Reading, Orton-Gillingham, PAF, CKLA, and your other adopted programs from day one. The fastest path to growth almost always runs through what you already own, and nothing we recommend carries a product sales agenda.
Is this only for K–2, or do you support upper grades?
Both. In the early grades the focus is foundational skills: phonemic awareness, phonics, and orthographic mapping. In grades 3 through 8 the coaching shifts to fluency, vocabulary, morphology, and comprehension, so every K–8 teacher delivers strong reading instruction, every day.
How is this different from a literacy workshop or PD day?
Workshops stop at learning. Our consultants work inside your classrooms every week: co-teaching, modeling lessons, joining grade team meetings, and running data analysis sessions, carrying every teacher through learn, practice, master, and reflect until the practice holds without support.
What results should we expect, and when?
Evidence arrives at the middle-of-year benchmark window, not after the contract ends. In one year of this coaching, a partner kindergarten grew from 25% to 86% at or above benchmark, a first grade more than tripled from 18% to 65%, and across seven partner kindergartens in one Brooklyn district, students at or above benchmark climbed from 18% to 68%, all verified against Acadience Reading source data.
How quickly will we see results?
You will see evidence at the middle-of-year benchmark window. Across 2025–2026 partner schools, students at or above benchmark grew from 38% in September to 49% at mid-year to 61% by June, verified against Acadience Reading source data.
One Conversation
Put this instruction in your classrooms.
Tell us about your school, your programs, and your benchmark data, and we will map the coaching to them: which grades, which tiers, how many days, and what you should see by mid-year. A real person reads every inquiry and replies within two business days.