This was a qualitative case study that compared data across six district-level literacy coaches' epistemological and ontological beliefs about how to teach reading. All six coaches were working as a cohort of literacy coaches on the development and implementation of a secondary reading intervention program for seventh-grade struggling readers.…

To function effectively, a reading specialist must be trained to diagnose reading difficulties, prescribe and implement appropriate treatment, and work effectively with both teachers and children in an interpersonal environment. As an alternative solution to the traditional campus reading clinic, a dual based clinic was established with theory and…