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 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. 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 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 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.

This video explains the steps for working through a story exercise in Word Warm-ups Live, where a student reads words with the featured phonics patterns in context.

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 provides an overview of Read Live, a research-based program featuring the Read Naturally Live and Word Warm-ups Live interventions. It focuses on fluency and phonics and supports vocabulary, comprehension, and phonemic awareness.

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.