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Read Live Features and Benefits
 

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CONTENT AND CURRICULUM
 

Read Naturally Live

New and Updated Stories: There are new stories for levels 3.0 and 6.0. Many stories in other levels have been updated.

New Illustrations: All stories include new photo-realistic images.

Phonics Enhancements:

  • The Phonics stories have been reorganized into two levels for each difficulty level (e.g., .8a and .8b), with 12 stories per level.
  • When students select a story, teachers can see what phonics patterns each story works on.
  • Revised key words lessons give more examples to make it easier for students to generalize the phonics principles being taught.
  • A short audio review of the phonics lesson has been added before students practice reading lists of phonetically similar words.
  • Practice scores are listed on the word list practice page to motivate students.
  • The distinction between the word list practice and pass pages is more obvious.

Comprehension Enhancements:

  • The quiz questions in lower Sequenced levels have been revised to fit into appropriate question categories. Many questions have been revised to improve quality or clarity.
  • Students are not asked to re-answer the missed quiz questions immediately. This helps prevent guessing, because the missed question is not repeatedly presented.

Vocabulary Enhancements: Additional vocabulary words have been defined for many stories. Existing definitions have been revised and additional illustrations added.

New Vocabulary Game: Wordtastic, a new vocabulary game, keeps students engaged while they wait for their teacher during the Cold Timing and Pass steps.

Read Along Enhancements: The third read along is recorded at an expressive reading rate, and read along options have been simplified; the speed of the recording is set automatically based on the number of read alongs selected.

Read Along in Spanish: For some levels, teachers can optionally have the student read along to a Spanish translation of the story once, before beginning the English read along. 

Practice Enhancements: The teacher can designate that a student must practice a certain number of times in addition to meeting his or her goal.  This is helpful for students who “cheat” and try to get out of the practice step without really being able to meet their goal.

Pass/Review Work Enhancements:

  • Students alternate between reading the story and playing Wordtastic while waiting for the teacher to arrive.
  • The teacher has the opportunity to grade the student’s retelling of the story.
  • For Phonics levels, the student is tested on the word list right after he or she has passed the story and the quiz/retell has been graded. 
  • After the student is tested, the software presents the student’s results on the story to provide a “teachable moment” to celebrate or discuss problem areas.
  • The congratulations page highlights good work on several criteria:  accuracy, rate, expression, quiz, and retell.  Students are recognized for meeting the requirements or exceeding them.

Reports: Teachers can print a student’s fluency graph, comprehension graph, retell graphs, level summary (list of results for each story in a level), and story details.  Also, the Students At-A-Glance report lists a group of students with summary information for each level completed within a time period.

Benchmark Assessor Live

Assessment: Teachers can assess students online using the software, or print passages and graphs to assess them manually.

Data Entry: Teacher can add or update student scores by manually entering the data.

Access to Data: Access to student data is controlled by role, so only the account administrator, principal, data entry person, and student’s teacher can see the scores.

Reports: Reports enable teachers and administrators to see a summary of results for a group of students within a grade or for individual students.

VALUE

Each Read Live license for a 12-month subscription includes:

  • Access to 13 Sequenced and 6 Phonics curriculum levels for each enrolled student (Read Naturally Live).
  • Access to oral reading fluency benchmark assessment passages and reporting for up to 30 students (Benchmark Assessor Live).
  • Online teacher training videos.
  • Ability to reassign purchased seats if a student completes or leaves the program.
  • Technical support via phone or e-mail.
  • Expiration grace period for 30 days that ensures your subscription does not expire while you are planning your renewal.

USABILITY

Automatic Level Advancement: When a student completes a level, Read Naturally Live automatically advances them to the next level — but the teacher can intervene.

Story Options: Teachers can set story options for a group of students at one time.

Changing Student Grades:

  • The grade for a selected set of students can be changed en masse, so you don’t need to individually update each student record.
  • The account administrator can also conveniently advance the grade of all students in the account at the start of a school year.

Assigning Homeroom Teachers: The homeroom teacher for a group of students can be set with one action.

SETUP, IMPLEMENTATION AND MAINTENANCE

Account Administration: Accounts can encompass a district, a single school, or a single teacher.

Student Data Transfer: Students can be transferred from one school within the account to another without losing their data.

Import Student Data: Import student information (name, parent contact info, etc.) from a data management system.  (You cannot import story data from Read Naturally SE.)

Groups: New "My Groups" feature enables teachers and administrators to flexibly create sets of students for easy reporting and viewing within the teacher module.  A group can be defined for a class, a reading group, a homeroom, or any set of students you want to view together.

Roles:

  • Role-based access to the application allows people in different roles to perform just the tasks they need and hides information that they should not be able to see.
  • Inclusion of a data-entry role enables a trusted secretary to enter student data on behalf of the administrator or teachers without requiring them to share their user IDs and passwords. 
Licensing: An account administrator can assign licenses to students on behalf of another teacher, or they can distribute licenses to other staff members so that  the teacher can assign the licenses themselves.