Right To Read Initiative

In July of 2022, the Right to Read Initiative hosted the Effective Literacy Practices for BC Educators Symposium. This episode features Dr. Linda Siegel a UBC professor emeritus discusses her research and how Early Identification and Intervention Makes a Difference for Everyone!

Ontario teacher Kathryn Hayes-Waldhuber joins Dr. Kathryn Garforth to discuss her favorites strategies and tools for her classroom.

Kathryn Hayes-Waldhuber is a teacher from Ontario. She speaks to Dr. Kathryn Garforth about how the various roles she has had as a teacher have lead her to the Science of Reading.

Sara Peden joins us to discuss recommendations made in the Ontario Human Rights Commission's #RightToRead Inquiry regarding the assessment and identification of students at risk for reading failure and those with dyslexia.

Josh King joins us to discuss how he embeds literacy intruction across the curriculum in his intermediate classroom.

Dr. Nathaniel Swain joins us to discuss what literacy instruction looks like inside of his classroom. It was fascinating to learn more about a SLP's approach to phonics instruction in the first year of formal reading instruction.

Dr. Linda Siegel provides us with an insights into effective reading interventions. Discussing what she has learned from her decades of research in the field of reading and learning disabilities.

Ontario teacher Josh King, joins Dr. Kathryn Garforth to speak about his teaching journey and how he realized that even as a science and math teacher he would have to include reading instruction as part of his lessons.

Dr. Linda Siegel, a Professor Emeritus from the University of British Columbia joins Dr. Kathryn Garforth to discuss her thoughts about the assessment and identification of students at risk for reading failure and those with specific learning disorder such as dyslexia.

Dr. Linda Siegel joins Dr. Kathryn Garforth to discuss her journey as a researcher in the field of reading instruction and learning disablitlies. Did you know that she started as a student studying primates?