How we support schools

We work collaboratively with partner school districts, individual schools, and afterschool programs to increase the literacy skills of 1st-4th grade students in communities that need our support the most. 

Why we’re different

• Student Selection: Teachers select students who are up to a year or more behind their grade level benchmark and are matched with a literacy coach for the whole school year.

• Research-Based Curriculum: We use a proven, skills-based model that is in strong alignment with state frameworks and scaffolded literacy standards.

• Structured Sessions: Through a structured, 30-minute session, coaches guide students through a fluency and repeated reading lesson to improve reading and comprehension.

• Informative, Practical Training: Literations coaches receive 25 hours of ongoing training and professional development throughout the year.

• Use of Existing Assessments: Using school literacy assessment data (taken at the beginning and end of year) we are able to track individual student progress.

• Data Collection: Literations collects and shares data to show the ongoing impact we’re making on students’ reading fluency and social-emotional learning.

In their own words

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Not always in the classroom will you have an opportunity to sit with the students one on one for 30 minutes and talk about the book, which is how kids start to deepen their knowledge of the world. I think that’s what is most unique about Literations.”

— Grace Coleman-Burns, Principal, Martin Luther King Jr. K-8 School, Dorchester, MA

Our literacy model supports teachers in the following ways:

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Provides teachers with additional time to focus on the needs of other students in the classroom.

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Uses an intentional selection process to identify students that would benefit most from extra time spent with a mature, caring, supervising adult to practice their reading skills.

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Enables identified students to benefit from the life knowledge and mentoring of their coaches that develops social-emotional skills.

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Provides an extra resource not only for teachers, but for the school community as a whole.

In their own words

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Literations’ sustained relationships and consistency has meant a lot to us. Having volunteers that work in our classrooms year after year and work with our teachers and get to know our community has allowed for greater individualized support and better meet the needs of our community, which  has been invaluable to us.”

— Brian Radley, Principal, Winship Elementary School, Brighton, MA

Contact us to learn more

If you are interested in learning more about collaborating with Literations, please contact our Deputy Director Jen Bowen Flynn at jbowenflynn@literations.org.