When your school or district wants to do more to help all teachers become effective teachers of reading and writing, here's a book that will show you how to maximize your efforts through differentiated literacy coaching. This research-based, school-proven approach helps you implement eight professional development formats ranging from coplanning and focused classroom visits to demonstration lessons and coteaching. An experienced literacy coach explains: (1) How to design and deliver the most effective, most appropriate form of literacy coaching; (2) The different roles and responsibilities of literacy coaches; and (3) Step-by-step procedures to help both new and experienced coaches collaborate more effectively with teaching colleagues. Included are over a dozen modules that literacy coaches can use to expand their own expertise and support their fellow faculty members. Discover how literacy coaches can deliver the kind of instruction and support that is most likely to help teachers improve student literacy.