Ontario Human Rights Commission Right to Read Report: Sincere, Passionate, Flawed

IF 4.3 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
J. Cummins
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The Right to Read report highlights the fact that children who experience dyslexia are not being adequately supported in Ontario schools. The report’s call for the establishment of a more effective identification and intervention infrastructure within the school system is timely and persuasive. Unfortunately, the Right to Read report advances two unsubstantiated claims to explain the reading difficulties some children experience in the early grades. Specifically, it argues that Ontario schools are failing to teach reading skills effectively for all students, not just those with specific reading disabilities. Second, it attributes this general failure to the fact that most Ontario schools implement a balanced approach to reading instruction, which the report claims, pays insufficient attention to teaching sound/letter correspondences in a systematic, explicit, and intensive way. Neither of these claims is supported by the scientific data. Ontario students are consistently among the top performers in cross-Canada and international comparisons of reading performance. Furthermore, the empirical research is fully consistent with the implementation of a balanced or contextualized approach to literacy instruction that integrates the teaching of sound/symbol relationships with a more general commitment to immerse children into a literacy-rich instructional environment.
安大略省人权委员会阅读权报告:真诚、热情、有缺陷
阅读权报告强调了一个事实,即患有阅读障碍的儿童在安大略省的学校没有得到充分的支持。报告呼吁在学校系统内建立更有效的识别和干预基础设施,这是及时和有说服力的。不幸的是,“阅读权”报告提出了两个未经证实的说法来解释一些孩子在小学早期遇到的阅读困难。具体来说,它认为安大略省的学校未能有效地为所有学生教授阅读技巧,而不仅仅是那些有特殊阅读障碍的学生。其次,报告将这种普遍的失败归因于安大略省大多数学校在阅读教学中采用了一种平衡的方法,报告称,这种方法对以系统、明确和密集的方式教授语音/字母对应不够重视。这两种说法都没有科学数据支持。安大略省学生的阅读成绩在全加拿大和国际比较中一直名列前茅。此外,实证研究与平衡或情境化的识字教学方法的实施完全一致,该方法将声音/符号关系的教学与更普遍的承诺相结合,使儿童沉浸在一个丰富的识字教学环境中。
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Journal of Teaching and Learning
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