Intervention Programs

Students...

• Build fluency and motivation by reading short, nonfiction passages.
• Increase reading accuracy and expression with audio support.
• Strengthen comprehension and vocabulary.
• Develop automaticity in decoding (Phonics levels).
• Work independently most of the time.
• Experience success and an improved attitude toward reading.

Read Naturally Live provides...

• An interactive reading intervention, often used for RTI or MTSS implementations.
• Options to easily differentiate the program to meet individual needs.
• Motivating informational texts for reluctant readers, from beginning readers to adults.
• Extensive, computer-generated reports on student progress.
• Opportunities for teachers to work with students one-on-one.
• Three curriculum series (Sequenced, Phonics, Idioms) with a total of 23 levels.
• Nonfiction reading opportunities as required by state standards.
• Spanish translations for stories in early Sequenced levels.

​Read Naturally Live is an online reading program 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 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.

 Research basis for the Read Naturally Strategy

​Read Naturally Live Steps

1. Select a Story
   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
   In the Sequenced and Idioms series, 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. In the Phonics series, the student listens to a phonics lesson and reads words that have the featured phonics patterns.
3. Prediction
   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
   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 it 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
   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
   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
   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/Word List
   In the Sequenced and Idioms series, the student retells or summarizes the story to improve comprehension. 
   In the Phonics series, the student works on decoding skills by practicing the word list until able to read it accurately at a predetermined rate. The Phonic series also includes a spelling step to give students practice encoding words from the word list.
9. ​Pass
   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. 
   
   In the Phonics series, the student also reads the word list to show that he or she can read it with three or fewer errors at the goal rate. ​A graph shows how much the student’s fluency has improved since the cold timing.
   
   ​ Additional graphs show results for the comprehension questions, the retelling, and the word lists (if applicable).

Read Naturally Live 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 all 23 levels of three series. All series have the same basic design with strategic differences.

• Sequenced series is the basic series and has 13 levels (1.0 – 8.0) with 24 stories per level.
• Phonics series adds phonics lessons and activities to the basic design and has 6 levels (0.8 – 2.7) with 24 stories per level.
   Phonics elements taught in the Phonics series
• Idioms series teaches common American idioms as students work on reading skills.  Idioms has 4 levels (3.0 – 4.5) with 12 stories per level.
  Featured idioms

The teacher assigns the appropriate series and level for each student. 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.
• Spanish translation of each story in Sequenced levels 1.0 – 5.6.

Extensive audio support includes:

• Audio directions for each step of the process.
• Three appropriately paced recordings that model correct pronunciation and expression.
• Pronunciation of words in stories when clicked.
• Audio definitions of key words, or, in the Phonics series, an audio phonics lesson.
• Clickable vocabulary words with audio-supported, student-friendly definitions.
• Spanish translation of each story in Sequenced levels 1.0 – 5.6.
• 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 vocabulary-building activity.

Computerized scoring and extensive reports include:

• Automated correction of multiple-choice questions.
• Calculation of fluency, phonics, and comprehension scores.
• Graphs and reports showing student performance.

TEACHER PROGRAM

Set up of account for district, building, classroom, staff, and/or students include:

• Enrolling staff and students.
• Licensing students.
• Support for single sign-on tools from ClassLink and Google Classroom.

Management of student programs includes:

• Placement of each student in a level and series with an appropriate reading-rate goal.
• Easily customized options for individual students and extensive student reports.
• Printable stories, reports, parent letters, awards, and completion certificates.

Online documentation includes:

• Step-by-step instructions for working in the software and "how to" section on setting up Read Naturally Live.
• 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.
Learn more about Read Naturally's online resources and tech support

Read Naturally Live is an integrated component of the Read Live platform.

• Read Live System Requirements

• Students At-a-Glance Report
  This report includes a student-by-student summary of results for Read Naturally Live stories passed. This report is used to quickly identify students who may not be making adequate progress in fluency and comprehension and therefore may require adjustments in their programs or additional instruction.
• Student Level Summary Report
  This is a table summarizing results for each story a student has passed at a given Read Naturally Live level, including cold- and hot-timing results, number of practices, quiz results, and more.
• Student Fluency Graph
  This bar chart displays a student's cold- and hot-timing scores for all stories passed in a specified series and level.
• Student Comprehension Graph
  This graph shows the quiz questions a student answered correctly on the first try for each story in a specified level. Quiz results are reported by question type and story.
• Student Retell Graph
  This graph shows the number of words a student used to retell each completed story on the first try and whether or not the student met the teacher's expectations on the first try.
• Word List Graph
  This graph shows how long it took a student to read the word list on the most recent attempt for each story the student completed in a specified level.
• Story Details Report
  This report provides a student's detailed results for a specific Read Naturally Live story.​
• Student Placement Results
  This report shows the results of a student’s placement test conducted using the Read Naturally Live placement program—the test results, recommendations, and decision.

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

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• Read Naturally Live Basics (webinar)
• Read Live Help Page
• User Guide: Read Naturally Live
• A Student’s Guide to Read Naturally Live (videos)
• Online Courses for Teachers
• Working with Read Naturally Live (videos)
• Working with Read Naturally Live (webinars)
• Read Naturally Live Teacher Responsibilities