Knowledgebase

This short video provides a quick introduction to Read Live. It shows how to log in, find your assigned role, navigate to key pages, filter lists to show just the students you want to work with, select students from a list, and how to access Help.

This video demonstrates how an account administrator logs in to Read Live the first time, adds and reserves licenses for schools, adds staff members, imports student data, and assigns licenses and lead teachers to students.

This video explains how an account administrator or school coordinator can schedule an import of student data into a new Read Live account. In the demonstration, student data that was exported from a student management system into a CSV file is uploaded to Read Live, and the import is scheduled to run over night. An email notifies the person who scheduled the import when it has completed.

This video explains how account administrators and school coordinators can update student data at the beginning of a school year by exporting data from a student management system and then scheduling an import to update the data in an existing Read Live account.

This video explains the two steps to licensing students in Read Live. It demonstrates how Account Administrators reserve licenses for schools, and then how staff members assign licenses and lead teachers to students.

This video explains how account administrators, school coordinators, or teachers can enroll students in Read Live, assign them licenses, and make students inactive. It also shows how Account Administrators and School Coordinators can delete students.

This video explains how to use the My Groups feature to work efficiently with groups of students. A group could be a class, reading group, 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 place a student in Read Naturally Live with an appropriate series, level, and goal when the student needs to improve reading fluency but does not need phonics instruction.

This video explains how to determine an appropriate Read Naturally Live Phonics level and goal rate for a student with phonics needs. Word Warm-ups Live can also meet phonics needs.

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. The video also demonstrates how a student completes a step that is unique to the Phonics Series—the Word List.

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.

This video demonstrates two distance-learning features in Read Naturally Live. The Waiting List displays students who need a teacher's help to continue working on their stories. The Login As tool allows the teacher to login as the student to more easily conduct a live timing, or conduct a hot timing using a student's saved recordings.

This video demonstrates Read Naturally Live's recording feature, which allows students to save readings during the Pass step of each story. The recordings can later be used by teachers to score hot timings, whether or not the student is present.

This video provides an overview of the Read Naturally Live program for people in the role of Read Live Assistants, with an emphasis on places they need to work with students or offer assistance.

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 conduct a Word Warm-ups Live phonics assessment to identify a student's earliest phonics needs. This helps you determine whether Word Warm-ups Live or the Read Naturally Live Phonics series is best suited for a student and where to place a student who is assigned Word Warm-ups Live.

This video explains how to interpret the results of the Word Warm-ups Live phonics assessment and Read Naturally Live placement test to determine which Read Live intervention(s) are appropriate for a student—Read Naturally Live, Word Warm-ups Live, or both.

This video explains the steps for working through a word-list exercise in Word Warm-ups Live: a phonics lesson, word-list practice, spelling activity, and pass step.