Intervention Programs

Read Naturally® Live—Español

Component of Read Live

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Focus:
  • Fluency

Additional Support:
  • Vocabulary
  • Comprehension

Skill Level: Grades 1‒5
Intervention Range: Beginning Reader to Adult Learner

This Spanish language version of Read Naturally Live develops the literacy skills of multilingual readers. Read Naturally Live—Español utilizes the highly effective, research-based Read Naturally Strategy on a web-based platform. This mostly independent reading program supports native Spanish speakers to develop their Spanish reading fluency while developing general reading skills with Spanish texts. The program may be used with Spanish-speaking students before or while a student learns to read in English. The program also helps native English speakers or others to learn to read Spanish text fluently as an additional language.

Read Live A Component of Read Live

Students...
  • Build fluency in Spanish by reading short, nonfiction passages.
  • Increase accuracy and expression with full audio support in Spanish.
  • Strengthen comprehension and vocabulary in Spanish.
  • Work independently most of the time.
  • Experience success and an improved attitude toward reading.
Read Naturally Live—Español provides...
  • An interactive reading program for learning to read in Spanish.
  • Support and structured practice appropriate for both native Spanish or native English speakers.
  • Options to easily differentiate instruction for individual student needs.
  • Opportunities for teachers to work with students one-on-one.
  • Motivating informational texts.
  • English translations for all stories.

Read Naturally Live—Español is a Spanish version of Read Naturally Live that accelerates reading achievement by combining the research-proven strategies of teacher modeling, repeated reading, and progress monitoring. A student works at his or her own pace in an appropriate level of material. Text and audio (completely in Spanish) guide the student through the steps. The student masters a story by reading along with audio and then practicing the story until he or she can read it fluently and with comprehension. The program automatically tracks student progress.

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Read Naturally Live Steps​Read Naturally Live Steps
  1. Select a Story (Seleccione una Lectura)
    The student clicks on the story he or she wants to read. Choosing the story deepens the student’s investment in the material.
  2. Key Words (Palabras Claves)
    The student reads the key words and their definitions while listening to an audio recording. The key words provide definitions that are important to understanding the story.
  3. Prediction (Predicción)
    The student uses the title, picture, and key words to write a prediction of what he or she thinks the story is about. The prediction prepares the student’s mind for reading the story.
  4.  Cold Timing (Primer Intento)
    The teacher may time the student for one minute as he or she reads the story, or the student may complete this step independently. The student clicks unknown words while reading, and then clicks the last word read during the timing. Read Naturally Live subtracts the unknown words from the total number of words attempted to obtain a cold-timing score and displays the score on a graph. This step establishes a baseline for progress monitoring, the component of the Read Naturally Strategy that motivates the student to improve.
  5. Read Along (Leer Juntos)
    The student reads along quietly with a recording of the story, typically three times. This step is the teacher-modeling component of the Read Naturally Strategy, which helps the student learn new words and master others as well as learn proper pronunciation, expression, and phrasing.
  6. Practice (Práctica)
    The student practices reading the story without audio support three to ten times until able to read it accurately, with expression, and at the goal rate. This step is the repeated-reading component of the Read Naturally Strategy, which helps the student improve fluency, master difficult words, and understand the story.
  7. Quiz (Prueba)
    The student answers questions about the story. Responding to the text holds the student accountable for meaning, develops the ability to answer many types of questions, and provides teachers with information about how well the student comprehends the story.
  8. Retell (Volver a Contar)
    The student retells or summarizes the story to improve comprehension.
  9. Pass (Aprobar)
    The student reads the story for the teacher to show that he or she can read it at the goal rate, with appropriate expression, and with three or fewer errors. The teacher corrects the comprehension questions and the retelling of the story (if applicable) and reviews the results with the student.

Additional graphs show results for the comprehension questions, and the retelling (if applicable).

Read Naturally Live—Español is a component of Read Live, a subscription program that is licensed per student. Teachers can reassign licenses if students leave the program. Read Live subscriptions include access to ten levels of Read Naturally Live—Español (1.0–5.6) with 24 stories per level.

The student works through the level in the student program, and the teacher manages the student's progress in the teacher program.

STUDENT PROGRAM

High interest, leveled, nonfiction stories include:
  • Key words, clickable vocabulary words, and comprehension activities.
  • English translation of each story (text and audio)
Extensive audio support includes:
  • Spanish audio directions for each step of the process.
  • Three appropriately paced recordings that model correct pronunciation and expression in Spanish.
  • Spanish pronunciation of words in stories when clicked.
  • Audio definitions of key words in Spanish.
  • Clickable Spanish vocabulary words with audio-supported, student-friendly definitions.
  • An English translation of each story (text and audio).
  • Auditory signals that indicate if a student's responses to multiple choice items are correct or incorrect.
Structured instructional process includes:
  • Automated steps built around teacher modeling, repeated reading, and progress monitoring.
  • A wait-time activity that builds Spanish vocabulary.
Computerized scoring and extensive reports include:
  • Automated correction of multiple-choice questions.
  • Calculation of fluency and comprehension scores.
  • Graphs and reports showing student performance.

TEACHER PROGRAM

Account set up for district, building, classroom, staff, and/or students includes:
  • Enrolling staff and students.
  • Licensing students.
  • Support for single sign-on tools from ClassLink and Google Classroom.
Management of student programs includes:
  • Easily customized options for individual students and extensive student reports.
  • Printable stories, reports, parent letters, awards, and completion certificates.
Online supports include:
  • Step-by-step instruction for working in the software.
  • "How to" section on setting up Read Naturally Live—Español.
  • A lesson plan for introducing the program to students.
  • Training videos that explain how to set up the software and work with students in the program.

ONLINE RESOURCES AND TECH SUPPORT

To help you implement Read Live successfully, Read Naturally provides free web resources and tech support.
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Read Naturally Live—Español is an integrated component of the Read Live platform.

Read Naturally Live—Español is an integrated component of the Read Live platform. All Read Live licenses enable full access to the Read Naturally Live—Español curriculum as well as access to the Read Naturally Live curriculum, One Minute Reader Live curriculum, and Word Warm-ups Live curriculum.

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Customer Reviews

Jan 15, 2026

5

Read Live has been a game changer for so many of my students! It helps them build fluency and accuracy, comprehension and writing skills. Not only has it helped my students, but it helps me in my classroom. Students are able to be pretty independent with Read Live which frees up time for me to complete progress monitoring tasks my district requires.


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Jan 14, 2026

5

I have used Read Live for several years and have loved seeing the growth in my students. This program gives me the tools I need to help students build fluency, accuracy, comprehension, and writing. It is an excellent program for struggling readers!


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Jan 14, 2026

5

Read Naturally is my favorite intervention program that we use in our school. It is very interactive and the kids really enjoy it. The stories are interesting and keep students engaged. I have even learned many random facts and have used my knowledge to win trivia contests with family. The kids are always excited when they “level up”. I have never had a student that dreads coming to learn on read live with me & that makes my job even easier!


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Jan 14, 2026

5

I have used Read Live for several years in my small groups. Students have loved seeing their growth with their fluency and I have seen their great improvement with their comprehension skills.


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Jan 13, 2026

5

Read LIVE is so important in our Resource Special Ed Room! The kids love reading the stories, improve their fluency scores, and love to do the Vocabulary builder short quizzes before the Red/Yellow tab Assessment is completed by the teacher with the student. The students have improved so much in their reading comprehension as well. Having to type responses also helps the students with their keyboarding skills. I must also add, by sitting with the students, I have learned so many new facts about various subjects. Keep up the good work!


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Jan 13, 2026

5

I am an elementary special education teacher, and I have been using Read Naturally Live for reading fluency and comprehension since I began teaching in the LRC room two years ago. My students have made great progress using this program. They love the interesting stories and especially enjoy completing the crossword puzzle at the end of each lesson.
From a teacher’s perspective, I appreciate how quick and easy the program is to set up. After just a few sessions, students can work independently, which allows me to provide targeted support where it’s needed most. Many of my students are in the same grade but read at very different levels and Read Live Naturally makes it easy to keep each student working at their own instructional level.
I am so thankful our school found this program—it is one of the most frequently used and most valuable instructional resources I have in my classroom.


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Jan 13, 2026

5

I have been using Read Naturally Live for about 4 years now in my Title I middle school classes. I have seen growth from a majority of my students using the program consistently. The students like the choice of readings the program provides and gives them knowledge of topics that they may not have seen before! Overall, I have loved the program and how easy it is to use in small groups!


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Jan 13, 2026

5

An excellent program that helps students with comprehension, fluency, and vocabulary! Students see so much growth. Instant feedback allows them to further improve their skills. Data charts give further insight about student growth and areas to improve.


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Jan 13, 2026

5

I used Read Live all last year and loved the way it covered phonics rules, repeated reading, vocabulary development, and comprehension. I saw improvement in all of my students over the year. This is my favorite computer-based program that I have used. I am really grateful that my district is willing to continue offering it for sped.


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Jan 13, 2026

5

I've enjoyed using Read Live with students. Stories are engaging and the instant data is great!


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Jan 13, 2026

5

Being a special education teacher, it can be hard to find a program that is versatile enough to cover all the needs of my students. Read Live is a great program that makes it easy for teachers to differentiate not only grade levels, but also independent reading skills. I have seen great progress in my students throughout the years of using this program!


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Jan 13, 2026

5

I have been using Read Naturally Live for several years. This program is very effective for small-group intervention in grades 3-5. Enables easy differentiation for students of all ages and instructional levels. I am able to effectively differentiate to meet the needs of each student. My students love the high-interest nonfiction passages. The built in progress monitoring tool enables me to review data and inform parents, administrators and classroom teachers of my students' strengths and weaknesses. In addition, I use the Word Warm Ups Live features with third grade students to reinforce decoding & word attack strategies. One Minute Reader is the icing on the cake- each student can work at their own pace and practice fluency and comprehension skills while I am working with individual students. 10/10 recommend this product for any school district looking for a quality reading intervention program!!


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Jan 13, 2026

5

This is my 3rd year utilizing the Read Live program in my self-contained classroom. I teach seventh grade students that are reading, on average, at a third grade level. My students have shown so much growth through using this reading program. Not only has their reading fluency increased but also there have been improvements to their reading comprehension skills as well. I know that my students get excited when they pass a story and are able to put their sticker on their charts. The program does a great job using the ribbon system to visually show students how well they did on each story. We are currently trying to find time within the school day to incorporate the Read Live program into our co-taught schedule. I think that this program would be beneficial to those students as well. In my thirteen year teaching, I have tried multiple reading programs and I can say that we have seen the most growth with his program than any other!


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Jan 13, 2026

4
Read Live is a great resource or tool to reinforce areas of reading, as well as to measure growth. In addition, it also shares useful stories that have some factual information, but are entertaining for students. I would love to see total number count at the end of each line to measure reading fluency, as well as a key for teachers so we can focus on listening to more students read instead of taking time to create a key for each story in order to measure comprehension. Overall, this is a great tool and a quick way to see a snapshot of how students are progressing and in what areas they struggle.
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Brandon Quesnel Jan 15, 2026

Thank you for using Read Live! The program automatically calculates the student's word-correct-per-minute score so that neither the student nor the teacher has to waste any time counting words. The program also automatically grades the quiz and provides immediate audio feedback for the student about whether they got a question right or wrong. The teacher does need to mark the short-answer question as correct or incorrect, but there is a "See correct answer" button available on that screen for them to view possible responses. When a student gets a question wrong, the teacher may choose to go over the answer with them. They can do so by clicking to reopen the question from the Pass/Review Work screen. There is a dropdown field that allows the teacher to toggle between the student's answer and the correct answer, so the teacher does not need to spend time searching for the answer themselves. Please feel free to reach out to our Customer Support Team with any questions.

Jan 13, 2026

5

Read Naturally Live is a great resource to improve fluency, above all, and simultaneously holds students accountable for comprehension. The continued development of their suite of products is impressive and meets the intervention demands that many schools currently face.


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Jan 13, 2026

5

I have been using Read Live in my RTI program for five years now. I have seen so many students improve their reading skills with this program. Read Live allows them to read on their level and gives them confidence in their reading. The students feel successful and thus enjoy reading!! It is a fantastic program!


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Jan 13, 2026

5

I have been using Read Live in my interventionist groups for the past 4 years. It is a wonderful program! We use it to boost fluency and comprehension for NWEA testing. We have found that those students who are just below the recommended score benefit from this program. I love to hear that the students I am seeing are passing their goals and achieving higher than expected scores. I would highly recommend this program!!


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Jan 13, 2026

5

The one-minute reader is a perfect way to incorporate all reading skills into one place. My students look forward to the stories and are excelling in reading in ways that they never have before.


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Jan 13, 2026

5

This is the first year that I utilized Read Live through my district. This program has helped me personally see student growth and allow for practicing skills in the small group setting. I have students that look forward to using this program due to the engagement that it has provided to them!


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Jan 13, 2026

4

Read Live is a go to for repeated reading practice. The text is high interest so it keeps the students engaged in their learning.


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