Intervention Programs

This is the best program to work on reading fluency. My school uses it every year with our students who get flagged for weaker fluency skills, and by the end of the year, they typically are no longer at risk. I appreciate how you can customize the settings to provide more support with short answer, retelling, repeat readings, or less support in these areas.

At Hamilton Elementary, we’ve seen incredible results with Read Live, and we couldn’t be more impressed with the impact it's had on our students. We originally introduced the program to support our intervention students, and the growth in their reading fluency was so impressive that we quickly decided to implement it across our entire third-grade level.

Now, every third grader in our school uses Read Live—and the progress has been nothing short of amazing. Nearly all of our students are reading more words per minute, showing stronger comprehension, and even developing better typing skills thanks to the online format. We’re seeing not just higher test scores, but more confident, motivated readers who are excited to track their own progress and challenge themselves.

Read Live provides structured, engaging, and research-based support that’s easy for teachers to manage and incredibly effective for students at all levels. The built-in progress monitoring makes it easy to celebrate growth, set goals, and tailor instruction. It has truly become an essential part of our literacy program.

If you're looking for a powerful tool to boost fluency and build confident readers, Read Live is it. We highly recommend it to any school serious about improving literacy outcomes!

— Hamilton Elementary School
Third Grade Team

We've seen a remarkable transformation in our students' reading abilities since implementing Read Live in our literacy intervention program. This program has proven to be an incredibly effective tool for improving both reading fluency and comprehension—two of the most critical components of literacy development.
It's easy to implement and monitor, while students are motivated by the clear goals and interactive format. For schools looking to boost literacy outcomes, Read Live is a proven solution that delivers measurable results.

I just started using Read Naturally Live this year! I could not be more impressed. The students' reading scores, oral reading, and comprehension scores are really improving. Students of all ages (mine grades 6-12) find it easy and enjoyable, so they have no problem completing the lessons.

Our district started using this program with our ESL population this year. We like that it covers a wide variety of grade levels and phonic levels. We also have some older students using the idioms stories. It is an added bonus that these stories are all nonfiction so that we can increase background knowledge in most students. The program is easy to use, log into, and is motivational. It's a great way for kids to catch up with peers!

I have been using Read Live with my students for 2 years. Many of my students have made significant growth in a short amount of time. I highly recommend this program to teachers and schools looking to boost their students' reading fluency skills.

I only have 3 full months of using Read Live but it has been a game changer for my intervention students. They love the nonfiction stories and are excited to get their ribbons at the end of the whole story. This program is very user friendly and I love the information I get from it.

Read Live has been an invaluable tool for supplementing my kids' fluency practice. Its ability to provide individualized practice and instruction has significantly benefited my students.

One of the standout features of Read Live is its capacity to differentiate instruction. This allows me to tailor the learning experience to each student's unique needs, ensuring they receive the support they require to succeed.

Furthermore, the platform facilitates one-on-one time with students, enabling me to effectively remediate specific skills. This personalized attention has proven to be incredibly impactful in helping students overcome their challenges and improve their reading fluency.

Overall, Read Live serves as a wonderful supplement to my existing curriculum, enhancing my teaching strategies and supporting my students' reading development. It has truly made a positive difference in my classroom.

We use Read Live as an addition to our direct service. The ability to tailor Read Live stories to reinforce what is being directly taught is a bonus. The reports are helpful to help identify growth and "still needs to be supported" areas.
 

I love how the program gives the students repeated practice with reading at their level. However, I wish One Minute Reader had a monitor password before moving on. I do like the word warm-ups.

I teach in a cross-categorial classroom and Read Live certainly meets my varying needs and helps me know how to plan my interventions. It also gives me real time information for IEP development. Thanks for this great service.

Read live is easy to use and easy to implement! Read live helps to hold students more accountable as they are required to make a certain amount of growth in order to pass through a fluency passage. This allows the teacher to hold students accountable to being invested in the intervention. I also like that there are comprehension questions and retelling or quiz options that can be turned on or off to tailor needs to specific students.

I really love working with Read Live with my small groups. It is a very efficient way to help students with their individualized reading needs. I appreciate the layout of the data and how I can share that with parents.

Read Live has been instrumental for my students who struggle in reading. I have noticed an increase in fluency and comprehension with most of my students. My 3-5 grade students enjoy the program and are pleased to see their own progress and growth.

This is a wonderful program to help students increase their fluency and accuracy. We use it as an after school supplemental program for students who are testing just below benchmark on DIBELS oral reading fluency assessments. We have seen their scores steadily increase since using this program. We also use the One Minute Live program as an at home support for families who are looking for more resources to help their children.

I started Read Naturally Live during COVID shutdown and was so pleased and was thrilled with the results. My aide and I were able to work with our students online and they were able to work from home. While other people saw regression, our students that used the program made growth. The parents asked to continue using the program at home even after we returned to campus. I have continued using the program and am still PLEASED with the results. The data provided is beneficial in tracking growth and reporting on IEPs or to parents and other teachers. Thank you for a fabulous program.

Read Live has been lovely, it's • Read Naturally Live, • Word Warm-ups Live, & • One Minute Reader Live, cover all the basics, vocab, phonics, sight words, reading fluency, and comprehension. No bells and whistles, just a great learning experience that is best done with a teacher, however students can also work independently on parts of it. I pray my district adopts it not only for my SPED students, but for the elementary as well, the students would all benefit. Thanks for the introductory offer, I was able to get some of my students started on a road to reading better.

I love Read Live!!!!!! I wish my free trial wasn't ending. My principal isn't sure if we will have the funds to continue it. I shared with my kids that this is our last week using it and they all were bummed. They loved being able to pick their stories and seeing the bar graph of their progress. Thanks for the free trial and hopefully we will find the funds to continue it. Great program!!!!

Read Live has helped my sixth-grade Special Education Students make great strides in improving their reading fluency!

I will have to admit I was very concerned at first with my students working with this program. After being a teacher for over 20 years, I have noticed that some computer programs allow students to continue to hit next or "trick" the program into thinking they have a skill that they do not. I love how the teacher has the ability to go back and adjust the students lesson. I can make adjustments to better fit the specific skill that I am wanting to target with each of my students. I can also slow down my students that have a tendency to rush through things. I think this is a good tool to use along with a phonics program.

I've been using Read Live for 6 years now, and I still love it and believe in it more and more each year. My students' fluency improves every year, most of them at least by one grade level, other students more. The students love to see their progression over time, and push themselves to read more. I love how I can customize settings for each student. I have some middle students that are still on a first grade reading level, so I change their settings in order that they don't become frustrated, and I can change them as they start to improve. I also love that I can give them a placement tests at my discretion. This has proven to motivate students more, they almost always show growth. This is a very motivational program, and very teacher and student friendly.

I have been using Read Live for over 25 years. The reason I continue to use this program is the success that I see with the students. The rereads help the students keep track of their learning by tracking their own fluency. They have a goal and try to achieve that number or higher with each reading. You should see their face light up with a big smile when they reach their personalized goal. As an incentive, they get a sticker on a chart for making their goal.

I switched roles at the beginning of the school year and was so overwhelmed with the new position, I did not renew the Read Live account due to not knowing how I would fit it all in. Shame on me! After using it now for just a couple of weeks and seeing how the students are already reading more fluently, I am disappointed in myself for not giving them the entire year. They say, hindsight is 20/20! My students will now start the next year with this great resource and I am excited to see where they land!

Read Live is a fantastic program to build reading fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing with students. Our school uses it daily and the students make gains in all areas mentioned. It's easy to use and a predictable routine for the kids. The non-fiction stories are varied and interesting. The Read Naturally website has lots of resources for teachers and students. I highly recommend this program!

Read Live has had an effective impact on the primary students in my building, particularly when it comes to boosting their reading fluency. The program provides students with a structured, engaging approach to practice reading skills at their own pace. What’s especially helpful is that it tailors the reading material to each student's level, making sure they are challenged without feeling overwhelmed. It’s easy to use, motivating for students, and provides the support and structure they need to succeed.

I have been using Read Live with a group of 7th-grade students this year. The students love using Read Live and often request it when starting a lesson for the day. They use it independently, and it allows me to check in on individual students who might need extra support. It makes planning lessons easier for me and I can see progress through the program. Read Live is perfect for middle school students who are reluctant readers. The short stories are engaging and offer the students choices about what they read.

I am an Instructional coach in my district. I worked with students that struggle with reading fluency. The value that Read Naturally offers to our students is amazing. The program is easy to implement and the progress easy to monitor. Students enjoy seen their own progress in every reading.
I appreciate the conveniency of printing and sharing results with fellow teachers and parents. This communication allows us all to have the same goal; student success.

Read Live has been a game-changer this year! Students have made noticeable progress with fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. The stories are diverse and interesting. Students enjoy choosing stories, working towards their goals, and seeing immediate results. I like that students can work independently and also with me. The vocabulary and quiz components add depth and purpose. It's more than another repeated reading fluency program. I especially like being able to adjust and control functions and the detailed reports. Students enjoy viewing their graphs and the information is excellent to share with classroom teachers and parents. I can also adjust and plan for instruction using the data gathered. I can't stop raving about it! :-)

I love using Read Live with my students. I enjoy the immediate feedback they get while taking the quiz. I also love how my whole small group can be working at their exact level! Bonus that they have a variety of stories to choose from!

Read Live is the perfect way to differentiate reading comprehension. As a special education teacher, I can meet the needs of all my students. My students love the stories and celebrate their growth and accomplishments with each story they finish!

Read Live has been a game changer for student engagement in an intensive autism classroom. I personally purchased this to support current reading instruction. The vocab with pictures has even added support for an ELL student. Do wish there was more of visual support within the quiz feature and more spelling during passing the passage.

This program has been such a great asset for our struggling readers in our school corporation!

Read Live has been an invaluable tool for my students. It allows them to work on fluency and comprehension at their own pace and level, which helps them feel more confident in their reading skills. I particularly appreciate how they can read along with the story out loud and then practice reading independently. The word lists are also a great feature, providing extra opportunities for students to practice word recognition.

One area my students often struggle with is vocabulary, but Read Live helps them make significant progress by offering the story as a reference to help with definitions. This support is crucial, especially when answering comprehension questions. I've noticed a real improvement in their comprehension skills, thanks to the ability to refer back to the text when needed.

The students also love seeing their progress after each "hot read." Even when they don't meet their goal, they appreciate the opportunity to try again and improve next time. This reinforces a growth mindset and motivates them to keep working hard.

Overall, both my students and I have greatly enjoyed using Read Live, and we've seen noticeable growth in their reading skills!

I have been using Read Naturally for years and I am a big fan. I love the fact that it hits so many target areas all in one program; decoding, encoding, fluency, vocabulary, writing, concrete and inferential thinking .... I also really like the data that I can use when writing progress notes on the student's ability in each of those areas. It is good, concrete data that I can share with parents and coworkers. I plan to keep using this program for years!

Read Naturally has been a wonderful addition to our intervention service for students focusing on fluency!

I have been looking for an all inclusive program for my Special Education middle school students. I wanted a program that helped increase their basic decoding, fluency and comprehension skills. This program is very engaging to the students. I ask them who loves it and I was surprised by all of the positive feedback. Students love choosing their own stories and that they can listen to someone read as they practice reading and that they can see their improvements through graphs immediately. I love all the components, the independent features for the students and that the teacher has the ability to turn on and off features and that teachers have to put in their code before a student can take a test. I piloted this program and I am not sure if my county or school will help purchase it, but for me as a teacher, I love it!

My high school students much prefer Read Naturally to our past oral reading fluency/comprehension exercises. They find the choice of reading passages and individualized pace to be very engaging and they love to track their progress! It's not a one-size-fits-all solution, but its a great addition to our reading curriculum.

I teach reading to students with reading disabilities. When I pair Read Live practice with systematic sequential phonics practice, students make huge gains in their ability to read more fluently. The Read Live practice helps students build vocabulary and reading endurance. This year I have had 6th graders who read one new story a week gain 25 words per minute on a first read and have gained a year of growth in their Independent Reading Levels.

Read Live is excellent and we use it a lot to support our weak readers, EAL students who need phonics support and dyslexics. It helps students to speed up their reading, improve comprehension and improve their vocab and is an all-round support for all reading issues. We use it with all ages from year 2 up to year 13 and it is a bedrock of our support system for literacy.

Ever since I started using Read Naturally Live my students have been very engaged and increasing their fluency! They love getting to choose their own topic to read about and they have been excited to learn while building fluency!

Read Live had been a great resource and program to engage and empower my students in their reading skills! This programs encompasses vocabulary, phonics, fluency and comprehension. I love how it assesses where students are at and provides engaging content that targets needed skills! My students develop their phonics skills through Word Warm-ups and the phonics series in Read Naturally Live. My older students work to develop their vocabulary and oral reading fluency. They love checking their progress on the graphs and setting goals for themselves in their learning. Read Naturally has become such a staple in my classroom!

We tried Read Live in our intervention lab as a free sample. We really liked it and hope we can find money next year to order it for our upper grade lab students.

My students and I love Read Naturally! The stories are engaging and my students love that can see their progress in the fluency charts at the end of each story.

My Reading students get so much “bang for their buck” with the Read Naturally program. In addition to fluency practice, my students get comprehension, vocabulary, as well as phonics word work in a minimal time commitment. Thank you!

I appreciate that there is a phonics based series of stories. The sequence of exercises for all the Read Naturally Live lessons is excellent and students can visually see their reading rate improve with repeated readings. My students have made great progress with this program and I have appreciated using Read Live with the students who really needed this level of support. It's easy to print the story that students pick to send home with them for extra repeated reading practice at home too.

I have used Read Live for years. As an Orton Gillingham Reading Intervention Specialist in middle and high school, I find Read Live especially beneficial for those students who have mastered phonics and are at the stage of generalizing learned skills into the content area subjects. I like that there are various topics at each level. This helps keep students interested and choose topics relevant to their learning. I love that the teacher has flexibility in altering each student's program settings. For example, I have a student with very high comprehension but low fluency. I limit the amount of comprehension activities he has to do and increase the fluency and repetition drills. I feel it is essential for the teacher to be involved with the students' learning and sit alongside them as they interact with the program. However, the program does lend itself nicely to independent work when appropriate. Finally, the program's data is extremely valuable for IEP goal writing and progress monitoring.

As a special education teacher, I’ve found Read Live: Read Naturally to be a highly effective tool for supporting students with reading difficulties, especially those with learning disabilities or who require targeted intervention. The program’s structured, predictable routine is a great fit for students who benefit from consistency and clear expectations. Its combination of modeled reading, repeated practice, and comprehension questions helps build fluency, confidence, and understanding over time. I appreciate how the program allows for individual pacing, which is crucial in a special education setting, and the progress monitoring features make it easy to document growth and adjust instruction as needed. With proper scaffolding and teacher support, Read Naturally has made a noticeable difference in my students’ reading development.

My students love the Read Live program. The program is engaging for all levels of readers. I also appreciate that the students also have access to the supplemental program, One Minute Reader. I have students that chose to do "extra reading" at home with the One Minute Reader program because they enjoy it so much.

Thank you for creating such engaging programs for my readers.

This was my first year being introduced to the program and using it. I was blown away by the visible progress a student can make just by using the program. It has allowed me to redesign my time with students and provided me much sought after data to support ongoing intervention. The flip side it provides data that a student has graduated to just general education supports. Thank you for such a great product!