The Read Along step is a modeling step, where students actively read along with a recording of the story. This step helps students learn unknown words and practice difficult words. It encourages proper pronunciation, expression, and phrasing.
Read Live User Guide
- Orientation to This User Guide
- Part One: Read Live Overview
- Getting Started
- Using Read Live
- Updating Account Information
- Updating Your Information
- Working with School Information
- Working with Staff Member Information
- Working with Student Information
- Adding a Student
- Importing Student Data
- Enabling Single Sign-On for your account's students
- Updating Student Information
- Updating Information for Multiple Students by Importing
- Creating a Student Passwords Report
- Changing a Student's Read Naturally Live Lead Teacher
- Changing a Student's Homeroom
- Changing a Student's Status
- Changing a Student's School
- Changing a Student's Grade
- Advancing Student Grades by Starting a New School Year
- Deleting a Student
- Merging Student Records
- Working with Licenses and Access to Applications
- Working with Homerooms
- Working with Personal Groups
- Distance Learning Tools
- Part Two: Read Naturally Live and Read Naturally Live–Español
- The Read Naturally Strategy
- Teacher Responsibilities Overview
- Placing Students in Read Naturally Live
- Series and Levels
- Goals
- Conducting a One-Minute Timing
- Counting Errors
- Conducting the Placement Test
- Independent Placement for Students
- Conducting the Placement Timing Manually
- Entering the Series, Level, and Goal
- Enabling and disabling individual stories in a level
- Troubleshooting Placement
- Assigning Access to Read Naturally Live–Español
- Assigning a Level and Goal in Read Naturally Live–Español
- Setting Up
- Implementing the Steps
- Program Basics
- Common Features of the Stories Screens
- Starting the Program
- Exiting the Program
- Moving Between Read Live Applications
- Checking the Header
- Checking the Progress Bar
- Advancing Through the Steps
- Repeating Audio Instructions
- Checking Series, Level, and Goal
- Turning the Reading Guide On or Off
- Viewing Additional Pages in a Multi-Page Story
- Completing the Select a Story Step
- Completing the Key Words Step
- Completing the Prediction Step
- Completing the Cold Timing Step
- Completing the Read Along Step
- Completing the Practice Step
- Completing the Quiz Step
- Completing the Retell Step
- Completing the Word List Step
- Completing the Spelling Step
- Completing the Pass Step
- Pass Step Overview
- Waiting for the Teacher
- Conducting a Hot Timing
- Rating Expression
- Retesting a Hot Timing
- Correcting the Quiz
- Correcting the Retelling
- Conducting the Phonics Word-List Pass Timing
- Retesting the Phonics Word-List Pass Timing
- Reviewing Student Work
- Reviewing Data Mentor Suggestions
- Options for Students Who Do Not Pass
- Interpreting the Congratulations Screen
- Resetting Stories
- Using the Phonics Series
- Using Read Naturally Live–Español and its Steps
- Program Basics
- Story Options: Customizing the Program for Students
- Opening Story Options for Read Naturally Live or Read Naturally Live–Español
- Turning Steps Off and On
- Setting the Time Limit for the Prediction Step
- Allowing Students to Complete the Cold Timing Step Independently
- Setting the Number and Speed of Required Read Alongs
- Turning On the Spanish or English Read Along Steps
- Setting the Number of Required Practices
- Changing the Duration of Practice Timings
- Setting the Time Limit for the Retell Step
- Setting the Duration of the Word List Timing
- Enabling or disabling a student's recording features Story Option
- Enabling or disabling Full Audio Directions for a student
- Restoring Story Options to Their Default Values
- Monitoring Student Performance
- Communicating With Parents/Guardians
- Part Three: Word Warm-ups Live
- Giving students access to Word Warm-ups-Live
- Opening Word Warm-ups Live as a student
- Placing students in Word Warm-ups Live using a phonics assessment
- Word Warm-ups Live sections and exercise types
- Implementing the steps of Word Warm-ups Live exercises
- Steps in a Word Warm-ups Live Word List exercise
- Completing the Look, Listen & Respond step
- Completing the Decode & Read Along step
- Completing the Practice Word List step
- Completing the Spelling Step
- Completing the Word List Pass step
- Reviewing the student's Pass / Word List Graph
- Reviewing the student's Word List exercise work on Pass / Review Work
- Options for Students Who Do Not Pass
- Ranks on Word List exercises
- Steps in a Word Warm-ups Live Story exercise
- Playing Phontastic while waiting for a teacher
- Resetting Exercises
- Steps in a Word Warm-ups Live Word List exercise
- Exercise options: Customizing Word Warm-ups Live for Students
- Changing Decode & Read Along requirements for a student
- Setting the number of Word List Practices
- Setting the Duration of Word List Timings
- Setting the number of Read Alongs
- Setting the number of Story Practices
- Enabling or disabling Full Audio Directions for a student
- Choosing the Story exercise version for a student
- Monitoring Student Performance
- Printing Word Warm-ups Exercises
- Part Four: One Minute Reader Live
- Assigning Access to One Minute Reader Live
- Placing Students in One Minute Reader Live
- One Minute Reader Live Levels, Books, and Stories
- Story Options: Customizing the Program for One Minute Reader Students
- Implementing the Steps of One Minute Reader Live
- Monitoring Performance of One Minute Reader Live Students
- Bibliography
Completing the Read Along Step
- Part Two: Read Naturally Live and Read Naturally Live–Español
- Implementing the Steps
- Completing the Read Along Step
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