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Coaching Conversations: Discourse Within Reading Recovery Teacher Leader Training, Kristi Dawn Swafford
Coaching Conversations: Discourse Within Reading Recovery Teacher Leader Training, Kristi Dawn Swafford
Doctoral Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to investigate the discourse of literacy coaching conversations within the Reading Recovery Teacher Leader training year. Both Reading Recovery and literacy coaching have been well researched, however there were gaps in the literature concerning the role of the Reading Recovery Teacher Leader within Reading Recovery and the details of literacy coaching interactions, specifically the language of coaching sessions. This study sought to address these gaps in the literature by examining the discourse of Reading Recovery Teacher leaders and their coaches as they participated in literacy coaching sessions during their 2014.2015 training year. Eleven coaching …