Intervention Programs

My name is Shelly Burks, I am an interventionist at Naas Elementary in Boring Oregon. I use the Read Live program with several groups of students ranging from 2nd to 5th grade. I just love this program! I am seeing great improvement in fluency, accuracy and comprehension. I love that I can have several students in the same group and they can all be working at different levels. The students also enjoy this program. They can't wait to sit down and start a new story. The stories are high interest stories that keep students engaged and thinking about their reading. I also have just started using the Data Mentor, I find it helpful.

Read Live has been an excellent resource for my reading intervention for 5th and 6th-grade students. Students are amazed when they do their "Hot Timing" and exceed their goal. With large groups in my classroom, the reading intervention was slow and difficult to differentiate until Read Naturally Live's program came to us. I have students do graphic organizers for non-fiction texts with each text they read and their comprehension levels are growing every day. Having the report information gives me an easy way to show parents and other staff how the student is excelling or struggling and exactly where we need to assist each student. I recommend Reading Live to any reading intervention teacher.

As a reading specialist (K-5), Read Live has been my favorite online learning platform hands-down. I love that I can adjust the programs and settings for each individual student. Some students use all three options (Read Live, One-Minute Reader, and Word Warm-Ups), while other students use either one or two, depending on their specific and individualized goals. I also love the progress monitoring tools that help me, as well as my students, see their progress as well as areas to strengthen. Read Live has improved my students’ reading fluency, stamina, and ability to answer questions - both in written response as well as multiple-choice. The kids love it too! My students love that they are able to choose the stories they read. They find the nonfiction stories engaging, and not so lengthy as to seem intimidating. Many of my students have expressed that they feel more successful with the Read Naturally stories then they do with other reading materials in school. In fact, several of my students have requested their login information so that they can use the platform at home. Nothing can make me happier than when kids are asking to read at home!

Read Live has helped my students to become more fluent readers at a very rapid rate of growth! I'm always so excited to share with their families that the growth is so high! It also is helping some of my other students who are working on the importance of comprehending what they read. This program is a great fit for some of my students during their IEP intervention time.

I absolutely love using the Read Naturally Live programs with my middle school special education students! I first used RNL approximately 10 years ago and have transitioned to 3 different schools since then. In each new school I was able to advocate for the use of Read Naturally Live for my students and was able to provide data to my administrators to demonstrate its effectiveness and gained their support to purchase the subscriptions for my students. I have found it to be extremely effective in a resource room setting where most of my students are on different instructional reading levels. This program is geared towards their individual needs and enables students to work at their own level to make significant gains. Every year that I have used this program I have had struggling readers make significant progress with some gaining 2+ years. This program works because it is based upon the Science of Reading and utilizes research-based, best practices reading instruction!

I have a 3rd and 4th Grade special education teacher, and I have seen fabulous results using Read Live and Word Warm Ups! My students are building confidence in their reading by visually seeing their growth. The program has been a great way for me to differentiate within groups while ensuring every student is getting adequate instruction and support.

I teach kids who are a little anxious while reading because English is a second language for them. At first they would not want to read aloud and now they look forward to reading to me, look up a glossary to know the meanings of difficult words and even challenge each other on their synonym and antonym scores. My students love it and i keep recommending the program to my fellow Interventionists!

Read live has been a great asset to our school and tom the ELAR department. It has bridged a gap between kids with learning disabilities and kids that struggle with fluency. Some of the students that use this program are our Spanish speaking students they are able to have the story red to them and it is helping them understand and speak English better.

As a Middle/High school Special Education teacher it is challenging to find materials that are high interest/controlled vocabulary. Read Live does a great job with this and also prepares my students for the content vocabulary they will need in science and social studies classes. I appreciate the comprehension questions and the opportunity to insist that the students respond in complete sentences, use the vocabulary and develop a paragraph summary. It hits all the language arts marks for my kids when I use it thoroughly. I also love that I have detailed documentation of progress in a wide variety of language arts skills areas immediately! Thank you for continuing to develop this program online!!!

Read Live has helped my beginning and struggling readers access the Word Work activities successfully by having audio options on the page. This helps the older students navigate the site independently and they feel good about themselves when they complete an activity. My students are loving the stories as well and like the challenge of a timed read! Such a great program, I'm so glad our district purchased the licenses for us!

I am an Education Specialist working to provide interventions for my students who struggle in academics. Read Naturally has been a great reading intervention for my struggling readers. After using Read Naturally my students have demonstrated significant improvement in reading fluency and comprehension. The nonfiction stories keep their interest as well. Overall, this has been a great program!

I have recently added Read Live to my small group instruction for some of my struggling readers. I have seen their fluency scores increase even though we have only been using the program for a short time. The students love to challenge themselves and beat their cold timing scores. I love how this program not only boost scores, but also build confidence in my students!

Read Live has been a wonderful tool for our literacy program. We've seen students improve in their fluency and accuracy over the years using this program- it is so great to see. I love the agency it grants students, and the mix of fluency, accuracy, and reading comprehension is great. It also is great typing practice for the students.

Read Naturally is a tried and true system for teaching literacy: reading & comprehension. It is powerful and successful because it targets learning in ways that ensures improvement for students—And students LOVE IT !

Read Live is a strong program for reading fluency and comprehension. Our elementary school has used it for over 5 years.

Desired Recommendations:
Two areas we would like to see added is being able to read the predictions that students are making, and the line tracker would also have a choice to track words.

My favorite 2 aspects of Read Live are the fluency work which is something kids do not often get enough practice with at the middle/high school levels, and the repetition of the reading process - from pre-reading to post-reading which is a habit that we need our students to learn.

I have used Read Naturally - One Minute Reader for approximately 10 years and have seen great results! I work with struggling readers and I have found that this program does in fact build fluency, comprehension and confidence! This year I decided to try Read Naturally Live and have found it to be an even better program for my students. I've been teaching reading intervention for 11 years and used many different tools, but Read Naturally has been the one tool I've stuck with over the years because it continues to prove to be effective with my struggling readers. Customer service is also great!

Read Live is a great tool that helps our teachers meet the needs of our students with language based learning differences. Using Read Live has been a very effective way to monitor student progress and helps to ensure our students meet their fluency and comprehension goals.

My students have made tremendous progress over the years using Read Naturally Live! My students who struggle with fluency have gained confidence and improved at rates that don't even compare to other programs that I have used. I find the comprehension and vocabulary components to be very beneficial as well. The students love the high-interest content and they are motivated to reach their goals. I can't say enough about the positive impact Read Naturally Live has had on my challenged readers.