Practice-Based Coaching to Support Paraeducator Implementation of Shared Book-Reading Strategies in Preschool

The practice based coaching (PBC) framework offers early childhood special educators (e.g., teachers and paraprofessionals) the opportunity to collaborate in order to best support the needs of the children in their classroom. Evidence-based strategies (i.e., question prompts/evaluation, expansions, and requests to repeat) implemented with fidelity during shared book reading (SBR) sessions as a means to support children’s language and literacy development can successfully be targeted within the PBC framework. Additional considerations for individualizing strategies will help to ensure all children can meaningfully participate in SBR.