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Read Naturally Live
Steps of the Program
The core steps of the Read Naturally Live program incorporate the research-based strategies of teacher modeling, repeated reading, and progress monitoring to maximize growth in reading fluency. Additional steps support vocabulary development and promote comprehension.
The teacher's role is to teach students how to work through the steps and to support them as they are working.
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Step 1: Select a Story The student clicks the title of a story he or she wants to work through. Twelve stories are displayed at a time. |
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Step 2: Key Words This step teaches key vocabulary words that are important to the story. The student clicks each key word and reads along with a recording of the word and its definition. The student must click and read along with all of the key words before continuing. |
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Step 3: Prediction The student uses the title, picture, and key words to write a prediction of what he or she thinks the story will be about. This prepares the student's mind for reading by requiring him or her to briefly think about the topic. |
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Step 4: Cold Timing The Cold Timing establishes a baseline for measuring the student's improvement. The software times the student as he or she reads the story for the first time. The student clicks words he or she doesn't know. After one minute, a bell sounds, and the student clicks the last word he or she read. The software subtracts the clicked words as errors and displays the Cold Timing score in a bar graph. |
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Step 5: Read Along This is the teacher modeling step, helping the student learn proper pronunciation, expression, and phrasing. The student quietly reads aloud with a recording of the story. The student typically reads along three times. When a read along isn't in progress, the student can click highlighted vocabulary words to see and hear their definitions. |
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Step 6: Practice This is the repeated reading step. It helps the student improve fluency, master difficult words, and deepen his or her understanding of the story. The student times him- or herself as he or she practices reading the story without the recording. The student must continue to practice until he or she is able to read the story at or above the goal rate, typically three to ten times. |
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Step 7: Quiz Questions The student answers questions about the story to test his or her comprehension. For most of the stories, the questions follow a specific pattern to help teachers identify what areas of comprehension, if any, are challenging for a student. The software corrects the multiple-choice questions. Teachers correct the open-ended questions during the Pass step. |
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Step 8: Retell (or Word Lists) In the Phonics series, the student reads word lists until he or she is able to read them accurately at a predetermined goal rate. |
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Step 9: Pass |