OTF Position on the Right to Read Report of the Ontario

OTF Position on the Right to Read Report of the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) OTF Position on the Right to Read Report of the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) The Ontario Teachers’ Federation (OTF):  1 Recognizes that every student has the right ii. [...]   intervention and accommodation.  Emphasizes the critical importance of 4 Agrees that the current wait time for educator professional judgment in the 7 students to be assessed and to access teaching and assessment of reading.  appropriate intervention is not acceptable. [...] Protecting the importance of teaching a love of approaches to the teaching of reading are reading. [...] Recognizing and honouring the important role student’s learning needs are different and teachers of community partnerships and supports in the need to use multiple reading techniques and teaching of reading and cultivating a lifelong strategies to meet these diverse needs. [...] Real improvements large-scale curriculum changes, making sure to to the capacity of the system to address the pay appropriate attention to systemic processes needs of students with reading disabilities as outlined in the Auditor General’s Report on will require attention to support services and Curriculum Reform.