Knowledgebase

This video demonstrates how the account administrator logs in to Read Live the first time, adds schools and staff members, imports student data, and allocates and distributes licenses to schools and staff members.

This video explains how account administrators can import data for multiple students at the same time by creating and then importing a CSV file into a new account. In the demonstration, the data was exported from a student management system.

This video explains how account administrators can update student data at the beginning of a school year by exporting data from a student management system and then importing it into an existing Read Live account.

This video explains how to enroll students in Read Live, assign them licenses, make students inactive, and delete students.

This video explains how to place students in Read Naturally Live with an appropriate series (curriculum), level, and goal. Read Naturally Live includes an online placement test that guides teachers through the placement process.

This video explains the steps a student follows in Read Naturally Live.

This video shows how the steps of the Phonics series stories are different from the steps of the Sequenced series stories in Read Naturally Live.

This video explains the options available to teachers when a student does not meet all of the criteria for passing a story in Read Naturally Live.

Many of the steps in Read Naturally Live can be customized to fit the needs of individual students. This video demonstrates how you can turn off steps, allow independent cold readings, adjust the number of read alongs, and change the duration of practices and hot timings.

This video explains how to monitor students' performance with Read Naturally Live reports and make adjustments to ensure that students are continually challenged.

This video explains how to create and manage groups of students. A group could be a class, reading group, homeroom, or any other group of students you want to manage together. For example, you could change story options for all students in a group at one time or generate reports for the group as a whole.

This video explains how to administer an assessment using Benchmark Assessor Live, a component of Read Live. While the student reads an assessment passage on paper, the examiner follows along using either a paper copy of the same passage or with the Benchmark Assessor Live software.

This video provides an overview of Read Live, a comprehensive, research-based program that includes Benchmark Assessor Live for screening students for overall reading proficiency, and our newest intervention program, Read Naturally Live, with curriculum that supports fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and phonics.

Why do Read Naturally Live, Encore, Masters Edition (ME), Software Edition (SE), and GATE focus on fluency? Watch this short video to learn the answer and hear more about why building fluency is so important for struggling readers.

Introducing One Minute Reader! Struggling readers need more than just books. They need a structured reading program that applies research-based principles to keep them on track and maximize results. They need a reading program like One Minute Reader.

The Read Naturally Strategy is the foundation of the Read Naturally Live, Encore, ME, SE and GATE programs. This strategy combines three principles—teacher modeling, repeated reading, and progress monitoring— that research has shown to be powerful strategies for improving students' reading skills.

This video walks you through the placement process and explains how to find the appropriate level, curriculum, and goal for each student who is about to begin using a Read Naturally Strategy program.

This video explains how to conduct a one-minute timing to assess a student's reading fluency (words correct per minute).

This video explains how to place a student correctly in Read Naturally Software Edition. When you place a student, you choose an instructional level, set a reading-rate goal, and choose a curriculum that is appropriate for him or her.

This video explains the basic layout of Read Naturally Software Edition. It explains the basic layout of both Teacher Management and Student Stories.