Join Catherine Young Morris and Dr. Kathryn Garforth for their discussion about the importance of decodable texts.  

Catherine Young Morris began authoring decodable text during her daughter’s early elementary years in response to the overwhelming abundance of predictable texts for beginning readers, and underwhelming selection in decodable texts. Needless to say, her daughter could guess with the best of them. With two interdisciplinary degrees focused on social policy and an English minor, she was inspired, as per Toni Morrison, to write the book “you want to read, but … hasn’t been written yet.”  

Catherine’s career began in early childhood development research, and eventually led her to a Product Director role with the Confident Learners K-3 literacy program at The Learning Bar. It was her work at The Learning Bar with literacy experts and educators across Canada that deepened her appreciation of the vital role literacy plays across an individual’s lifespan, as well as how solid the evidence-base is on what constitutes high quality reading instruction. She is the founder of Practice Readers Books, and ever curious about the sciences of reading and learning.