Intervention Programs

Read Live has really helped my students with their reading fluency and comprehension skills. They love using the program and it has helped them build confidence. I love that the students can work independently in the One-minute reader and how the programs can be individualized to meet each child's specific learning needs.

I have used Read Naturally Live for Special Education Reading for over five years. It has been beneficial for multi grade levels and a diverse set of reading abilities. Students show progress over the years they use it. I even pass on their logins and have parents use it with the students at home. Students show progress, in Vocabulary, comprehension and fluency skills.
I enjoy that it is individualized for the student for their IEPs to track their growth.

I am new to the Read Live program, and I must say, I never anticipated that such a program existed. It has been incredibly helpful in assisting our readers in developing the fluency they need. The stories available are engaging and offer a wealth of learning opportunities. Witnessing my students make progress in their reading journey is truly priceless. This program has proven to be an invaluable resource for both educators and students alike.

Michele Calvin has provided our school with exceptional support! My initial set-up meeting could have been extremely complicated since we were attempting to merge numerous trial accounts into one site license account. She gave me the answers I needed and also gave my information to others that could help with additional tech. support. I explained what my ideal training would look like for our school and she went out of her way to deliver it. We just completed her training today, and I have heard numerous comments about how valuable it was. Not only did she give our staff clear practical information on how to use Read Naturally with fidelity, she was also able to answer our specific questions. The staff feels motivated, confident and has the resources/contact information they need to be successful. Thank you Michele!

I've been using Read Live for three years as part of my small reading intervention groups, working with 1st through 4th graders on automaticity. While I do see improvements in my students and can confirm that the program is effective, I have to be honest—it's painfully boring.

In all my time using Read Live, I’ve had maybe two students who actually enjoyed it. The material is dry, and there’s very little content that engages the 6-10-year-olds I work with. Every day, I dread having to tell my students, "It's time for Read Live again," because I know they’ll groan in response. They do it because I require it, not because they’re excited to learn.

Does the program work? Yes, and I applaud it for that. But learning should be more than just effective—it should be engaging, too. If Read Live could incorporate more exciting, high-interest stories and interactive elements, it could make a world of difference. Right now, it’s just not a fun way to learn. If they figure out a way to do for reading what Prodigy did for math (make it fun & exciting) , I'll change this to 5 stars!

I love Read Live! In the past, I have utilized Read Live before school to support students during our COVID Learning Loss morning tutoring. I have also utilized Read Live during Mustang U (our school's RTI Time). Currently, I utilize Read Live in my roles as Instructional Coach, Intervention Teacher, and SST Coordinator. The components of Read Live seamlessly work together to support the Science of Reading, as well as strategies to improve reading, comprehension, and writing for all students. Our Special Education/SAI Department incorporates Read Live into their SAI Sessions with students to assist students in strengthening their current reading abilities and work towards their IEP Goals. In my Intervention Classes, I have seen many students gain great ground (grade levels) in Reading and no long have the need to attend Intervention. The Read Live Data that I gather is helpful in writing SSTs and tracking student progress. I find Read Live to be an invaluable component of many areas of instruction at our school. Thank you!

I am huge fan of Read Naturally! I have used Read Naturally/Read Live for 16 years and cannot emphasize enough what a wonderful program it is for reading instruction for special needs students. The progress that made in my Resource Room is remarkable! Year after year, my students buy-in to Read Naturally because they feel successful in an area that they have traditionally struggled with for years. They become self-motivated to become stronger readers because they sense their own learning, in some cases for the first time ever. It is truly wonderful to witness! There are so many teachable moments that arise over the course of instruction using Read Naturally. As long as I am a teacher, Read Naturally will continue to be a cornerstone to my instruction.

As a Literacy Specialist and Intervention Coordinator, I love having an intervention resource dedicated to fluency! As our students grow their foundational skills, Read Naturally Live has been a great way to extend student growth and proficiency. The nonfiction stories are engaging and informative!

Read Live is a great program to help build fluency skills. I have seen Read Live help students become more confident readers.

We love Read Live at my school! We use it primarily for fluency intervention and see huge gains in student words per minute. Students look forward to reaching thier goals as they improve their fluency and comprehension. Teachers love the live data the program provides and watching students grow and achieve. We are so fortunate to use this program at our school.

My students love working in Read Live. This has helped them with fluency and work on comprehension skills. My students absolutely love seeing their weekly progress as the graphs increase as it is highly motivating and engaging. All the new components with phonics and one minute readers and technology have made the program even stronger.

I love the Read Live program and have seen so much growth with the special education students I teach. The stories are engaging and scaffolded for success. I like how there is independence built into the program. The students enjoy taking ownership of their growth in reading,

I have loved using Read Live in my Resource classroom!
This program has given me the data I need to address student's needs.
I also appreciate the program and how easy it is to individualize for each student.
I highly recommend this program!

As a Reading Interventionist, my school was struggling to find a program that both built fluency as well as reading comprehension for our 5th-8th graders. Read Live to the rescue! We are seeing many of our at risk students show huge growth in their reading comprehension. The program has high interest stories at each level. Students get to choose what stories they would like to read. I should also add - the training we received from Read Live was extremely helpful to us.

We've seen lots of growth in the older students using read naturally as an intervention. It really helps with comprehension and fluency.

We love Read Naturally Live! I have used Read Naturally for 20 years. I started with the paper copies. The live version makes my life so much easier. I like that each student is at their individual instructional level. The reports are great and informative. All around a great program that shows results!!

My students are enjoying this program so far! It's really helping them to read better!

Although I cannot speak for the rest of my coworkers, I love Read Live. I have seen a big leap in how my students read. Their scores are going up and even improved on their state testing. I have used Read Naturally in the past and have loved how quickly, with daily practice, my students improved.

I have used Read Live for many years now. It is an outstanding program for building fluency! The stories are engaging — any many times I have said of a tidbit of information……I learned that in a Read Live story! When the students buy into the program the results are amazing!

I work with academic intervention teachers to serve the foster youth students in our school district. Since last year, Read Naturally has been a valuable resource to improve and strengthen their reading skills. I love how the students can practice keywords while working on comprehension and sentence writing. It has become my first choice for reading sessions.

I'm a new teacher and I just started using One Minute Reader and I love it so far. I do hot and cold reads for my students. I'm a fist year special education teacher. I'm interested to explore more of what this program has to offer. After exploring your website, it seems like you guys have a lot of good progress monitoring tools and data tracking. One of the data tracking pages I got from your site was to do the hot and cold reads, it's been a good help with keeping my students engaged in their progress and areas to grow in.

I have been using Read Naturally for three years now. My students love it and I have seen great improvement in them. It is a win, win for everybody!

I tutored a student with reading disabilities and she was 3 years below her reading grade level. She did not like the hands-on, multisensory methods of other research-based reading programs, so I introduced her to Read Naturally's online reading program. Since she loves technology, I thought this would be a good fit. She not only liked the online learning and engaging lessons of Read Naturally, she LOVED it! In 6 months, she increased her reading level by two years because she enjoyed interacting with the program so frequently. Her parents were astounded! I highly recommend the online program for students who may not enjoy the structured literacy approach of other programs.

Read Live has been such a great tool to help build the fluency and comprehension of my special learners utilizing high interest texts! I love knowing we are working at their appropriate instructional level based on the placement test and my students love their time on Read Live.

The suite of tools that Read Live offers are so instrumental in supporting students on their journeys to become proficient readers. We couple Word Warm Up Live with Read Live Sequenced Stories to allow students to build their accuracy, fluency, expression, & comprehension abilities while continuously strengthening fluency with decoding at the word level. At my last school site Read Live became an essential part of our strong K-3 Literacy program and the Read Live model we used has now spread to other campuses within that district. I, happily, took Read Live with me to my new district site where we are building our program from the ground up and already seeing success. I encourage all campuses to consider Read Live and its many tools as an element for your reading program. Helpful at all tiers of instruction, Read Live is a tool I won't live without as a reading specialist.

I love to use Read Naturally Live with my students in private practice. We work hard on phonics skills and then use the program to gain more fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. The predictable format has been great for my dyslexic students as well. The students love the high interest stories and really enjoy when they hit their goals.

I have seen such an improvement in my students who have consistently used Read Live. The program is teacher and student friendly. The passages are all very interesting to the students and keeps them coming back for more. I love the data mentor feature and have found it to be accurate for changing a student level.

My 8th grade Reading Itervention class adopted the Read Naturally Live program as a replacement to the mishegoss that HMH created by re-configuring their Read180 software program. I was hesitant at first to use the Read Live program, as rumoors that "it was used years ago" and "it just wasn't a good program". Not knowing if that was true or not, I signed up for the FREE 60 day "test-drive", and was pleasantly surpised at how easy it is the use, and how engaging and focused the material is. My students have been successful using it, constantly growing with each intervention period, and one of my students was actually selected as the Read Naturally's "Star of the Month" for December! Their customer support has been very helpful, and they have additional opportunities via live webinars or tape webinars (which I can view with a busy teaching schedule). The program is highly-affordable, and a great addition to my 8th grade classroom.

Michelle was a huge help in getting us back up and running as we have several new faces since first using Read Live and her level of patience was appreciated. We hope to watch other tutorials to best use the full spectrum of tools available and also connect our teaching staff to help the team support our EL students with language acquisition and comprehension along with fluency/accuracy.

Read Naturally Live is an excellent program for developing reading fluency. I have used it for over 10 years as a station in my support setting. The program provides a visual representation of how practice affects their reading rate. Additionally, the comprehension questions help me identify the specific skills that require direct instruction. I would highly recommend it as part of a robust reading program. Also, the customer service is phenomenal. Christy has been so accommodating and responsive. I am so appreciative of the whole team.

I have used your programs with Special Education students in self-contained classrooms. They were motivated by their progress and enjoyed discussing their stories with others. I have always spoken highly of your programs and recommended the programs to other districts.

We've been using Read Naturally Live for 3 years in our intervention program and have seen amazing growth in our struggling readers. The program is designed to be easily accessable to students and teachers, while having depth and breadth of instruction to keep students challenged as they grow in oral reading and comprehension. Our program has "graduated" many students back to their regular classroom as they reached grade-level fluency. Read Naturally Live is a wonderful tool to have in your intervention tool kit!

Very patent and supportive

My students thrive year after year with this program. I utilize a reward system to keep the motivation and excitement alive. My middle schoolers are seeing their progress and are proud of themselves and even clap for their friends when they achieve goals. If you fire it up before launching it and utilize the training videos for yourself and for your students (as a class), you will love it too! Keep it alive and it'll happen

I am a special education teacher and have used Read Naturally for the past 7 years. It is a wonderful reading tool and my students and I have seen a lot of growth in reading achievement. It is also a confidence booster, as my students are eager to read to me when they are ready to pass a story/lesson.

The nonfiction sequential texts in Read Live are generally very engaging, especially the ones about animals and strange historical events like the Molasses Flood. The students get a chance to see what a fluent reading pace sounds like and then can improve their reading pace significantly on their hot-timings--seeing how much their score improves is very motivating for them. Overall, I'm seeing at least a 30-word improvement per minute over the course of the year. I only see my students 3x per week for 15 minutes each session, so they've been able to do about 12 stories -- two are still in the same grade level they started in. With more time each week, I'm sure they'd improve even more. Read Live hits key strands of reading -- vocabulary, background knowledge, comprehension, and fluency. Students can work on vocabulary while they wait for the teacher to do their hot timing, they can go back and redo parts of the assessment before passing, and I can differentiate easily for each student. My students all enjoy coming to me and working hard in Read Live to meet or exceed their goals.

Read Live is such a good program. It does need a teacher to work with the students, but it also helps build their independence.

Read Live has helped my students gain more confidence with independently reading, thus helping their overall reading fluency scores. My favorite feature of Read Live is the Read Aloud, my students’ favorite part of Read Live is seeing their practice scores. I would recommend Read Live to others because it helps struggling readers with fluency, and also puts them on their level.

Read Live has helped my struggling readers grow with fluency, decoding, and comprehension. I would recommend Read Live to others because it helps students read and understand their reading. I love EVERYTHING about Read Live!

Many of the students using Read Live are from other countries and struggling readers. Now they are learning to read and comprehend. I would recommend Read Live because the stories are engaging and relatable.

Using Read Live, I have seen great growth in my students' oral reading fluency. My students enjoy the Read Live content. They loved seeing their growth when we did our DIBELS assessments, and they attributed it to Read Live. I would recommend Read Live to others as it has demonstrated to be an effective tool.

Read Live has really helped assist students who are just learning the sound out words, along with putting them together to form sentences, etc. My favorite feature of Read Live is the variety of stories that are given…super interesting!!
 

I have been using Read Naturally since 2012 and I have seen amazing results! I love how it hits all areas of reading. The stories are exciting and the students as well as the teachers learn new things everyday. In all the years that I have been using Read Naturally I have never had a student that didn't like the program.

It’s such a powerful program to build confidence and give kids the opportunity to feel the joy of independent reading!

Read Live has been an amazing tool for my 2nd grader. In the span of a month he increased his ORF from 80wpm to 155wpm while learning about many engaging topics. I just ordered gate plus as a tier 2 intervention and looking forward to using it with my first graders!

Such a fun and interactive program!

My students have enjoyed the Read Live program. They are engaged and making nice progress!

I have been using Read Live for over 10 years. I have used it for both elementary and middle school. The kids love it! It is great for fluency as well as comprehension. I see such growth. The articles are high-interest - the kids talk and compare what they have read. They love the student choice as well. The fact that it is leveled helps so much for the various strengths of our kids. We are getting more and more ELLs to our district, the new to English speakers love this as well! Thank you!

This is our first year using Read Live and it is amazing how much growth I have seen in all of my students. The program is very helpful for new readers and adds a challenge to students who are already reading fluently. It is very user friendly and student-centered! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND!

Read Naturally Live is the best tool for struggling readers. The students find it very easy to navigate. The stories captivate their attention and help them, not only improve reading skills, but also learn in a fun way. I love how the program grows with them and challenges them along the way. I have witnessed countless students become better readers thanks to this amazing tool! I cannot recommend it enough!!!

Our district has been using Read Live for quite awhile. We first started with the paper copies and have been very please with the transition to the online version. I can confidently say that it is an outstanding tool for building reading fluency with students. The program is user friendly for both students and teachers. The students are able to work independently on enhancing their reading skills and then confirm their progress by directly working with their teacher. This aids in classroom management as well. The teacher can pull small groups while confidently knowing that their students on Read Live are actively engaged working on their IEP goals. The teacher can then switch which students are in their small group. Read Live makes data tracking easy for teachers. This data can be used to inform instruction and ensure that students are making progress. The reports have been a great tool to help students and teachers know how they are performing. Overall, we highly recommend Read Live!

My 2nd-5th grade Reading Intervention students love using Read Live. They look forward to reading the interesting non fiction stories every week. I have seen great fluency and comprehension progress.

Read Naturally is a great way to focus on building vocabulary, increasing fluency, and strengthening comprehension and writing skills.

I teach 7th and 8th grade students who are reluctant readers and have difficulty with grade-level materials. They are using ReadLive passages at their level as a supplement to a structured literacy program, and are making great progress. The stories are high interest non-fiction, so not only are they expanding their knowledge base and becoming smarter, but they are also enjoying themselves. Their fluency has improved so much with the focus on reading in phrases and repeated practice. I almost cried when one of the 'cool' kids told another student, "just do it, it works!" The visuaI graph for cold/hot reading scores gives them immediate feedback as well, always a plus and great to use for data collection to report to parents and teachers. I am so proud of my students and love the program!