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We bridge the gap between research, classroom practice, and home support, so that every child can experience the life-changing power of reading.

Help Your Child Thrive
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Where research meets real life.

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Founded by literacy expert and mother Katie Megrian, The Reading Symphony helps schools and families close reading gaps by translating the science of reading into approachable, coherent, and literacy-rich systems that produce excellent results for all children. This isn’t about giving you more information; it’s about providing contextualized, actionable guidance that moves readers at every level forward.

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How We Can Help

Whether supporting schools or families, we use an integrative approach based on personal experience of leading classrooms, schools, and districts toward exceptional literacy success.

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Parents

Feeling unsure how to help your child become a stronger, more joyful reader? At The Reading Symphony, we offer resources, coaching, and practical routines that make evidence-based reading support doable at home.

How we support parents:

  • Understanding Reading Assessments: Decode what the data really means and what to do next.

  • Parent Coaching: Build daily, evidence-based literacy routines that make reading time calm, consistent, and joyful.

  • Advocacy Support: Gain the clarity and language to ensure your child receives evidence-based instruction.

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Schools & Educators

Ready to take your district’s literacy results to the next level through professional learning and leadership coaching that’s empowering, evidence-based, and tailored to your school’s unique context?

How we support schools:

  • Curriculum Audits: Evaluate alignment to the science of reading and identify next steps for improvement.

  • Professional Development: Provide transformative, customized teacher and leader training that builds expertise and drives measurable results.

  • Leadership Coaching: Strengthen instructional literacy leadership capacity to ensure coherence and sustainability across classrooms.

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Meet Katie Megrian

Katie has over 22 years of experience helping educators and students achieve remarkable growth in reading. She helps schools envision, implement, and sustain systems and structures for lasting literacy excellence. Highlights from her leadership include:

  • Implementing evidence-based K–8 English Language Arts curricula that ensured coherence from classroom to network — helping her district outperform the Massachusetts state average accuracy score by 12 points in the first year of the new curriculum, with an average student growth percentile of 64 in ELA.

  • Driving top-five statewide growth in ELA for grades 4–8, including #1 in the state for students with IEPs and #2 for multilingual learners.

  • Founding and leading schools with multiple grade levels ranking #1 statewide in ELA and Math, with cohorts achieving up to 100% proficiency and growth percentiles as high as 95.

  • Launching and scaling Science of Reading–aligned professional learning systems that built coherence across classrooms, schools, and leadership teams.

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Real Results. Real Impact.

  • As a pediatric neuropsychologist, I’m no stranger to educational assessments and feedback, but when I received my own daughter’s screening scores and the school’s recommendations, I felt unexpectedly lost and confused, not to mention worried about my daughter. Katie was an absolute game-changer. She took the time to walk me through the feedback from the school, explaining what the scores meant in clear, accessible language. I can’t recommend her highly enough to any parent navigating the complexities of reading assessments and school interventions.

    - Natalie Noonan, Psy. D, Founder of The Center for Pediatric Neurodiversity

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  • Katie’s coaching style combines respect, honesty, and knowledgeable support. Katie presented a strong model of instructional leadership that continues to serve as a reference point for my own practice today as an instructional coach and leader.

    - Dr. Nneamaka Eziukwu: Director of Schools, Nova Pioneer South Africa

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  • Whether it’s troubleshooting action steps in a data meeting, sorting out how to resolve a thorny team dynamic, or determining how best to revamp an aspect of the curriculum, Katie has great ideas that are grounded in experience and a deep-seated belief that kids are capable of much more than we often give them credit for. I frequently reflect on and apply advice Katie has given me over the years, and when I find myself at a crossroads, I often ask myself what Katie would do. And then I call her and find out.

    - Wendy Soref: Senior Director of Talent and External Affairs, Springfield Prep Charter School

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  • Katie has extensive but also accessible knowledge that she communicated seamlessly to me as a parent without a background in reading science. Her plan was highly manageable to execute and also highly impactful for my son.

    - Haley Anderson, Parent

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  • Under her leadership as a principal, cohorts of students with disabilities made more growth than any other sub-group in the state of Massachusetts. Her experience as a phenomenal teacher and principal, as well as her experience working with students in grades K-12, brings communities of learners and educators forward.

    - Cristie McGrath: Chief of Student Support, Brooke Charter Schools

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