How Do I Organize a Comprehensive Literacy Plan?

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Reaching the stage of organizing a Comprehensive Literacy Plan dedicated to the Science of Reading and Structured Literacy is quite an achievement. Whether you are here as you lead a literacy organization or looking to fulfill requirements for state filings, this page exists to help you accomplish your goal. Below you will find some options for moving forward:

  1. Talk about it - Find a Community Forum specifically discussing issues related to organizing a comprehensive literacy plan.

  2. Get Examples - We have linked some great examples to consider.

  3. Get Templates - We provide a step by step guide, AI tools and blank templates to help you along your way.

  4. Get Background Research - If you are here, you should be

  5. Find Experts and Working Groups - Everyone needs a coach and we link coaching, consulting and working group/community opportunities below.

Get a readiness checklist!
Get a step by step guide

Talk About It

Join the Comprehensive Literacy Plan Community Discussion on how to organize your plan!

Get Examples of Comprehensive Literacy Plans

Submit an Comprehensive Plan for Sharing

Get Templates

We provide some options here if you want to get started using a step by step guide, using AI Tools, or a basic template to build your Comprehensive Literacy Plan.

  • This deck takes you through step by step of the items you may want to consider when collecting all the items necessary to build a Comprehensive Literacy Plan.

  • Copy the following text and post into Chat GPT, “I would like to create a draft comprehensive literacy plan using the comprehensive literacy plans from the following districts, Fairfax County, VA, Cherry Creek CO, Edina Public Schools, MN, Fresno Unified.” If you have strategic documents from your system, you should include them as well. This will be a starting draft that should be heavily collaborated on and developed with literacy leadership.

  • We have taken the examples above and started a Google Doc draft for use as a starting point, but intense collaboration across all literacy leaders and stakeholders are required.

Get Research and Resources

  • LETRS for Administrators

    LETRS® for Administrators enables leaders to effectively support educators as they engage in the LETRS course of study and work to implement the learnings in their classrooms.

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  • It's Possible

    This book provides school leaders with the systems and structures needed to implement quality literacy instruction.

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  • The Reading League

    Effective school leaders can have a significant impact on student success. In order to make this happen, they are responsible for a wide range of decisions, one of the most important of which is ensuring that evidence-aligned reading instruction is present in their schools.

    Go Here

  • Platinum

    Pathways to Literacy Leadership is an online professional development experience for district leaders and administrators seeking to create an organizational vision for effective literacy instruction.

    Go Here

Moderators

This Problem of Practice is moderated by Matt Hunter, EdD.