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Unlocking the Science of Reading for High School Students
Wednesday, March 27, 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT
Presented by Elena Canaras-Raoul, 10th Grade English Teacher, Community High School (NY); Deborah Reck, Chief Product Officer, Riveting Results; and Arthur Unobskey, Ed.D., CEO, Riveting Results
Sponsored by Riveting Results
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How can high school English teachers get all of their students–those who are three years ahead and those who are five years behind–to love to read complex literature?
In this workshop, the edWebinar leaders discuss the latest Science of Reading research that argues that adolescents need a differentiated approach to basic skills development, particularly through fluency practice, to engage with advanced text. A veteran tenth-grade English teacher describes her approach to fluency practice and how it triggers an emotional connection to text even for her most reluctant readers.
Once she has described the progress students make in accessing advanced texts, the teacher discusses how her students take the next step by debating responses to text-based questions with peers and surfacing misconceptions.
The team demonstrates how the Riveting Results app integrates these research-based approaches into one solution.
This recorded edWebinar is of interest to high school teachers, administrators, and district leaders.
About the Presenters
Elena Canaras-Raoul has been a teacher for 20 years, the last two as a founding teacher at Community High School in Brooklyn, New York. She has taught reading and writing to students in grades K through six and English to ninth- and tenth-grade students. For the past two years, she has implemented an innovative approach to fluency practice in her classroom. She gets great joy from creating classroom communities in which students fall in love with reading and become lifelong learners. Elena received her bachelor’s degree from SUNY Plattsburgh and her master’s in literacy from Bank Street Graduate School of Education.
After 25 years as a teacher and curriculum developer, Deborah Reck founded Riveting Results in 2016. She was acting on her belief that every child in the country deserves access to literacy instruction that enables them to read with understanding and insight and write with clarity and power. Riveting Results enables teachers to focus on the vitality of students’ ideas so that they can use that energy to drive high school and postsecondary achievement. As Chief Product Officer, she has continued to work closely with teachers to improve Riveting Results’ ease of implementation and its effectiveness.
From 2010 to 2015 Deborah led Amplify’s development of its middle school digital ELA program from concept to adoption by the state of California. Prior to her work at Amplify, Deborah founded and expanded The Writers’ Express into a reading and writing program and professional development organization serving students and teachers throughout the country.
Arthur Unobskey, Ed.D. joined Riveting Results after 30 years as an English teacher, principal, and school superintendent. Riveting Results puts tools directly in the hands of teachers so that they can teach all of their students how to read advanced high school texts. He is passionate about providing teachers with the support they need to seamlessly integrate foundational skills training with the study of irresistible, sophisticated literature. Dr. Unobskey received his bachelor’s degree from Yale University and his Ed.D. from Boston College.
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Riveting Results has the solution high school English teachers need. It has developed, tested, and implemented a comprehensive English Language Arts program that enables all students to read and enjoy complex text. Easy-to-use software positions the teacher to integrate differentiated foundational skills practice into the class’s daily study of beautiful literature. Both individual and group activities serve as formative assessments to provide teachers with the data they need to intervene before students become frustrated. Riveting Results students improve their scores on national standardized assessments at three times the rate of the national average.
