Supporting Every Child’s Right to Read
Kathryn Hayes-Waldhuber: My Journey to the Science of Reading
Join Kathryn Hayes-Waldhuber a Teacher & Consultant and Dr. Kathryn Garforth as the speak about the #RightToRead and her journey to the science of reading.
Resources mentioned in this talk:
- Foundations for Literacy: An Evidence-based Toolkit for the Effective Reading and Writing Teacher
- I’ve Dibel’d, Now What? by Susan L. Hall
- Lessons in Teaching Phonics in Primary Schools by David Waugh, Jane Carter & Carly Desmond
- Next STEPs in Literacy Instruction: Connecting Assessments to Effective Interventions by Susan M. Smartt & Deborah Glaser
- Differentiated Reading Instruction: Strategies for the Primary Grades by Sharon Walpole, & Michael C. McKenna
- Teaching Synthetic Phonics (Teaching Handbooks Series) 2nd edition by Rhona Johnston & Joyce Watson
Dr. Kathryn Garforth, Ph.D.
Founder of Garforth Education and The Right To Read Initiative.
Garforth Education provides online courses and professional development for educators. Garforth Education provides support to families of neurodiverse individuals. Dr. Garforth helps them understand the diagnosis and needs of their child.
Dr. Kathryn Garforth is passionate about every child's #RightToRead. As a dyslexic and the parent of a dyslexic she has a personal connection to the struggles students face. Her teacher training program did not provide the training to teach children like her how to read. She's determined to spread awareness about best practices for teaching reading.
Twitter: @GarforthEduc
Kathryn Hayes-Waldhuber from The Connected Educator, is a kindergarten educator who embeds synthetic phonics into a full-day, play-based kindergarten program. She has drawn on her past experiences to reflect, refine and implement best practices in reading instruction, in order to prevent future reading failures. As an instructional coach implementing RTI and norm referenced universal screening, her program and instructional practices are driven by assessment and progress monitoring that measure early reading strategies.
In her role as a program consultant, she supported the strategic direction of “all students reading by the end of grade 1”, facilitating and collaborating with her school board to produce resources, including the early reading strategy, based on the five pillars of reading instruction. As an independent consultant & tutor, she continues to support students and educators beyond the classroom, nurturing a love for reading through advocating for the science of reading instruction. Follow her at theconnectededucator.ca
