Supporting Every Child’s Right to Read
Right to Read Inquiry & Making Changes to Teacher Education
Join Melanie Baerg a Certified School Psychologist, Faculty, School of Education, UNBC and Dr. Kathryn Garforth as the speak about the #RightToRead and Making Changes to Teacher Education.
Right to Read Recommendations
Resources mentioned in this talk:
Resources mentioned in this talk:
- Heggerty Phonological & Phonemic Awareness by Literacy Resources
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Text Revision Dsm-5-tr 5th Edition by: American Psychiatric Association (Author)
- Dsm 5 Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders 5 Ed Spl Edition Paperback – Jan. 1 2017
by Apa (Author) - Speech to Print: Language Essentials for Teachers Paperback – Feb. 5 2020
by Louisa Cook Moats Ed.D. (Author) - Speech to Print Workbook: Language Exercises for Teachers Paperback – March 10 2020 by Louisa Cook Moats Ed.D. (Author), Bruce Rosow Ed.D. (Author)
- Essential Assessment: Six Tenets for Bringing Hope, Efficacy, and Achievement to the Classroom Perfect Paperback – Jan. 9 2017 by Nicole Vagle (Author), Cassandra Erkens (Author), Tom Schimmer (Author)
Other resources:
The Right to Read Initiative & Repeated Readings
https://right2readinitiative.com/repeated-readings/
Report of the National Reading Panel: Teaching Children to Read
Melanie Baerg is a faculty member in the School of Education, based at the South-Central Campus in Quesnel. She completed her MEd in School and Applied Psychology from the University of Calgary and is certified by the BC Association of School Psychologists, where she sits as an Executive member. Over the past decade, she has worked as a School Psychologist in School District 50 (Haida Gwaii), School District 82 (Coast Mountains), and School District 27 ( Cariboo-Chilcotin), and is currently providing school psychology service in School District 28 (Quesnel), alongside her work with UNBC. Melanie also holds a Post-Baccalaureate Diploma in Special Education from the University of British Columbia and is a BC Certified Teacher. She completed the teacher education program, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Communication (major) and Psychology (minor), at Simon Fraser University. Prior to becoming a School Psychologist, Melanie was a classroom and Inclusive Education teacher for over ten years in the Lower Mainland and on Haida Gwaii.
