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# Literacy Assistants (multiple positions) - District-wide [SY26-27]

- **Company:** Malden Public Schools
- **Location:** Malden, MA, United States
- **Salary:** $58,240.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Databases, Computer Literacy
- **Published:** June 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://api.schoolspring.com/api/Jobs/5777727?domainName=

## About the Role

* Experience working with students
 * Bachelor's degree
 * Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
 * Preferably: Degree in education and/or teacher licensure

Reports to: Building Principal, Director of Instruction and Intervention

## Description

The Literacy Assistant will provide reading and writing instruction to an identified at-risk population. The Literacy Assistant will work with the Title I literacy coaches, reading specialists, and the classroom teachers to plan and implement literacy instruction that meets the specific needs of large groups, small groups, and/or individual students.

Responsibilities:

 * Provide intervention services to at-risk children in reading and writing in order to accelerate their literacy skills.
 * Participate with the literacy coaches, reading specialists, and the classroom teachers to plan and implement 'just-in-time' literacy support in the five pillars of literacy (phonological awareness, Phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension).
 * Conduct individual diagnostic testing of students and analyze results with the school's literacy coach and grade-level teams.
 * Conduct progress monitoring of students identified as 'at-risk' and input results into the DIBELS database system.
 * Collaborate regularly with the literacy coaches and classroom teachers to share observations of student performance and progress.
 * Participate in training sessions provided onsite by the Title I grant.
 * Input benchmark literacy data using the DIBELS database system to support school wide analysis of data.
 * Attend data meetings and individual student meetings as necessary.
 * Support classes in literacy instruction as teachers attend professional development and professional learning communities.
 * Participate in other literacy-related tasks as determined by the Director of Title I and school-based principal.

Must be able to:

 * Be mobile and move from one group of students to another
 * Work respectfully with students, teachers, and peers
 * Be or be willing to get trained in literacy interventions and in administering the DIBELS assessment
 * Input data into the DIBELS database system
 * Be punctual and follow a tight schedule
 * Answer emails through the maldenps.org system
 * Navigate basic computer platforms
 * Complete a timesheet accurately


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