Right To Read Initiative

Lisa Virtue of Virtue Speech joins Dr. Kathryn Garforth to discuss the role a Speech and Language Pathologist can play to support teachers in the classroom with reading instruction that aligns with structured literacy.

Donna Hejtmanek, founder of The Science of Reading: What I Should Have Learned In College Facebook Group joins Dr. Kathryn Garforth to discuss why she created the group and why she thinks it has been so popular.  They also speak about what needs to change so that teacher feel more prepared.

Una Malcolm from Bright Light Learners discuss the importance of screening students for the risk of reading failure. They discuss the practical side of screening students and what teachers are able to do with the results.

Dr. George Georgiou from the University of Alberta joins Dr. Kathryn Garforth to discuss how the recommendations from the Ontario Human Rights Commission's Right To Read Public Inquiry can be implemented in schools. He discusses the success that he has had at schools in Alberta using instruction aligned with Structured Literacy.

Faith Borkowsky from High Five Literacy and author of the "If only I would have known..." series joins Dr. Kathryn Garforth to discuss the importance of creating a multi-disciplinary approach to screening young children for risk of reading failure. If we were to take advantage of services already in place like libraries, preschool, daycare, the doctors office and more, we could screen children bef...

Kate Winn  joins Dr. Kathryn Garforth to talk about how she teaches phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension and writing in her kindergarten classroom. She provides information about the resources she uses and why she has selected them.

Kate Winn joins Dr. Kathryn Garforth to discuss her journey to the Science of Reading. Kate shares several resources and books that she found useful as she is discovering more about the Science of Reading.

Dr. Kathryn Garforth and Nancy Young discuss how the information in the Ladder of Reading and Writing can help us understand the recommendations from the Ontario Human Rights Commission's Right To Read Public Inquiry.

Dr. Kathryn Garforth and Nate Joseph have a conversation about teacher education programs and professional development opportunities for in-service teachers. They talk about their own experience from their PDP and what they wish for the future.

Dorothy McKay joins Dr. Kathryn Garforth to discuss how she uses structured literacy in her classroom. Dorothy takes us through a 1 hour literacy block in her grade 1 & 2 classroom.

Dr. Kathryn Garforth speaks with Kim Lockhart about how she uses structured literacy in her Early French Immersion Special Education classroom.

Nate Joseph from Pedagogy Non Grata joins Dr. Kathryn Garforth to review the research supporting structured literacy and the recommendations in the Ontario Human Rights Commission's Right To Read Public Inquiry Report.

Dr. Kathryn Garforth is joined by Carla McNeil, founder of Learning Matters in New Zealand to discuss how leadership needs to play a role when it comes to implementing the recommendations from Ontario Human Rights Commissions Right To Read Public Inquiry.

Dr. Pam Snow joins Dr. Kathryn Garforth to discuss how we can use the recommendations from the Ontario Human Rights Commission's Right To Read Initiative to initiate school level change. 

Dr. Kathryn Garforth and Kim Lockhart discuss how the recommendations from the Ontario Human Rights Commission's Right to Read Initiative can be applied to French Language programs.

Dr. Kathryn Garforth and Cheryl Urbanczyk from Learn Literacy discuss the various terms discussed in the Ontario Human Rights Commission's Right To Read Public Inquiry Report and supporting documents.

Dr. Kathryn Garforth speaks to Dr. Linda Siegel about ways that we can avoid past mistakes when it comes to the Right To Read Public Inquiry. The Ontario Human Rights Commission's report if full of excellent information and has 157 Recommendations providing the exact steps that need to be taken to improve reading instruction. The research has been reported before and it is important the effort put...

Dr. Kathryn Garforth and Heather Ballantine from Root Literacy Design speak about her work with supporting The Compass School on their journey to using structure literacy practices.

Dr. Kathryn Garforth speaks with Michelle V, a grade 2 teacher from Ontario, Canada about how she began her Science of Reading journey last summer and how she has employed her new knowledge this year with her students.

Dr. Kathryn Garforth and Dr. Steven Dykstra discuss why the recommendations made in the Ontario Human Rights Commission's Right to Read Public Inquiry are aligned with the current research related to reading instruction.

Dr. Kathryn Garforth and Melanie Brethour an elementary teacher and founder of Decoding Dyslexia Quebec discuss her journey to structured literacy.

Dr. Kathryn Garforth and Jenny Gray of Watermelon works discuss how the recommendations made in the Ontario Human Rights Commission's Right To Read Public Inquiry can be applied to  French literacy instruction at the school level. The discuss how the students in the different types of French  schooling in Canada require different approaches to literacy instruction because of the knowledg...