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Read Naturally Programs in an RTI Model
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Read Naturally programs provide research-based practice and intervention for students being served in a tiered model of service delivery. The following table matches Read Naturally programs to conditions and applications appropriate to RTI:
| Reading Instruction — Best Practices |
Read Naturally Program | How This Program Supports an RTI Model |
Fluency:
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Read Naturally Live (part of Read Live), Read Naturally Encore, Read Naturally ME, Read Naturally SE |
Use with students served in Tiers 2 and 3 as a fluency intervention at appropriate readability levels. |
Fluency:
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One Minute Reader |
Use with all students as a school-to-home program to encourage reading and with students served in Tiers 2 and 3 who need fluency practice at their reading levels. |
Fluency & Phonics:
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GATE for Phonics | Use with all students as a reinforcement, with students served in Tier 2 as an intervention, and with beginning readers served in Tier 3 for intensive replacement instruction. |
Phonics & Decoding:
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Word Warm-ups | Use with all students for independent work to develop automaticity in decoding and with older students served in Tiers 2 and 3 for reinforcement and practice to build automaticity in decoding. |
Spelling & Phonics:
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Signs for Sounds | Use with all students to teach regular and irregular patterns and with students served in Tiers 2 and 3 who need to master sound-letter correspondences in words. |
Vocabulary:
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Take Aim! at Vocabulary | Use with all students to develop vocabulary and with students served in Tiers 2 and 3 who read at a fourth-grade level or higher and need a specific vocabulary intervention. |
Read Naturally ME, Read Naturally SE, and Read Naturally Live
Read Naturally is an intervention and/or supplemental program based on current scientific research on reading fluency that combines three powerful research-based strategies to improve fluency — teacher modeling, repeated reading, and progress monitoring.
Read Naturally enables students to work on fluency at their own pace. Each student works in an appropriate Read Naturally level based on the program's placement guidelines. The stories in each level include key vocabulary words, comprehension questions, and supporting activities appropriate to the level.
Read Naturally is available in several formats: Read Naturally Live, which is part of Read Live—Read Naturally's web-based assessment and intervention software program; Read Naturally Encore and Read Naturally ME, which are the paper-based versions with blackline masters and audio CDs; and Read Naturally SE, which is the desktop software version (client/server or stand-alone).
More about Read Live (including Read Naturally Live)
More about Read Naturally Encore
More about Read Naturally ME
More about Read Naturally SE
Read Naturally is an efficient, supplemental intervention to improve reading fluency for students served in Tier 2 and Tier 3 at appropriate readability levels in an RTI model. Once students have been trained in the step-by-step procedures, they work independently most of the time. The structure of the program motivates students to work toward a specific goal, and they are highly engaged in the task of reading.
One Minute Reader
One Minute Reader is based on the same strategy as Read Naturally's fluency program for classrooms but with books designed for individuals to use outside of school. Read Naturally offers materials for One Minute Reader school-to-home programs, in which students check out books and audio CDs and write on record sheets, which make the consumable books reusable. Parents/guardians may also purchase One Minute Reader books directly for home use.
One Minute Reader is designed to help all students who want to improve their fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary. One Minute Reader complements Read Naturally and accelerates reading success. In an RTI model, One Minute Reader is an effective and motivating resource for extending practice beyond the school day, especially for students served in Tier 2 and Tier 3.
GATE for Phonics
Group and Tutoring Edition (GATE) for Phonics combines fluency development and phonics instruction for beginning readers. GATE is ideal for small-group instruction or tutoring. Scripted lessons make this tool easy to use for teachers, tutors, and teacher-trained educational assistants. Each lesson includes a different nonfiction story and features specific sounds and letter patterns. Activities develop phonemic awareness, teach phonics, improve fluency in decoding and reading, and enhance comprehension.
In an RTI model, GATE is an appropriate reinforcement for all beginning readers and an excellent supplement or intervention for beginning readers served in Tiers 2 or 3 who need targeted intervention in phonemic awareness and phonics in addition to fluency practice.
Word Warm-ups
Word Warm-ups is a quick, timed, independent phonics program for developing mastery and automaticity in the decoding of words with common phonics or syllable patterns. Students work mostly independently on short, audio-supported exercises that emphasize phonemic awareness and decoding skills.
Word Warm-ups is based on the same three research-based strategies used in other Read Naturally programs: teacher modeling, repeated reading, and progress monitoring. Three levels are available—Word Warm-ups 1 (one-syllable words), Word Warm-ups 2 (two-syllable words), and Word Warm-ups 3 (multisyllabic words).
Word Warm-ups is an excellent strategy for all readers served in Tier 1 to develop mastery and automaticity in decoding words with common phonics and syllable patterns. It is an appropriate intervention for older students served in Tier 2 or Tier 3 who are not yet proficient in decoding skills, because students can be individually placed based on specific needs.
Signs for Sounds
Signs for Sounds is a research-based spelling program for beginning and developing spellers and readers. Signs for Sounds provides systematic, explicit phonics instruction to teach students how to spell words with regular spelling patterns (sound-out words). By mastering the correspondences between sounds and letters, students can successfully apply what they have learned in order to spell unfamiliar words. Signs for Sounds also provides a systematic strategy for teaching students how to learn to spell high-frequency words with irregular spelling patterns (spell-out words).
Two levels are available. Signs for Sounds 1 teaches first-grade-level phonics skills needed by beginning readers and spellers. Signs for Sounds 2 reviews the skills taught in level 1 at a faster pace and then continues on to present second- and third-grade-level phonics skills.
Signs for Sounds is an effective spelling program for all beginning and developing readers and spellers served in Tier 1. It is an appropriate spelling intervention for older students served in Tiers 2 or 3 who have not yet mastered the skills taught, because it can be used to provide differentiated spelling intervention for small groups or for individual students.
Take Aim! at Vocabulary
Take Aim! at Vocabulary is a vocabulary program designed to boost students' vocabulary knowledge in the critical middle grades. Students work mostly independently to learn sophisticated, high-quality words in a set of audio-supported lessons. Take Aim is built on a foundation of vocabulary research.
Two levels are available. The Goldenrod level is designed to increase the word knowledge of students who read at a fourth-grade level or higher. The Indigo level is designed for students who read at a fifth-grade level or higher.
More about Take Aim! at Vocabulary
Take Aim is appropriate for students served in Tier 1 who read at a fourth-grade level or higher and who lack understanding of most of the target words taught in a level. Take Aim is also appropriate for students served in Tiers 2 and 3 who (1) have been identified as needing vocabulary intervention, (2) lack an understanding of most target words taught in a Take Aim level, and (3) can read at a fourth-grade level or higher.
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