Read Live Help

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.

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Watch the "Orientation to Read Live" video on YouTube

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.

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Watch the "Setting Up an Account" video on YouTube

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.

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Watch the "Importing Student Data into a New Account" video on YouTube

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.

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Watch the "Updating Student Data with the Import Feature" video on YouTube

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.

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Watch the "Assigning Licenses to Schools and Students" video on YouTube

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.

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Watch the "Setting Up and Licensing Students" video on YouTube

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.

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Watch the "Setting Up My Groups" video on YouTube

This video explains how to place a student in Read Naturally Live with an appropriate series, level, and goal when the student needs to improve reading fluency but does not need phonics instruction.

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Watch the "Placing Students Without Phonics Needs " video on YouTube

This video explains how to determine an appropriate Read Naturally Live Phonics level and goal rate for a student with phonics needs. Word Warm-ups Live can also meet phonics needs.

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Watch the "Placing Students with Phonics Needs" video on YouTube

This video explains the steps a student follows in Read Naturally Live. After selecting a story, the student works through these steps: Key Words, Prediction, Cold Timing, Wordtastic (a wait-time activity), Read Along (teacher modeling), Practice (repeated reading), Quiz, Retell, and a Pass step with a review of the student's results.

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Watch the "Working Through a Story" video on YouTube

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.

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Watch the "Special Features of Phonics Stories" video on YouTube

If a student does not meet all of the criteria for passing a story in Read Naturally Live, the software presents a number of options the teacher may choose for that student. This video explores what steps to take when a student does not pass.

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Watch the "Options for Students Who Do Not Pass a Story" video on YouTube

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.

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Watch the "Setting Story Options" video on YouTube

This video explains how to monitor students' performance and make adjustments to their programs to ensure that they are continually challenged. Tools for monitoring performance include graphs of fluency, comprehension, and retell results, and reports that show students' progress and problem areas.

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Watch the "Monitoring Student Performance" video on YouTube

These videos demonstrate features for using Read Naturally Live in a distance-learning model. Part 1 demonstrates a waiting list of students who need a teacher's help to continue working and a Login As tool that allows a teacher to login as the student to conduct a timing. Part 2 demonstrates a recording feature that allows students to save their readings during the Pass step, enabling the teacher to score the hot timings later.

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Watch the "Distance Learning Features, Part 1" video on YouTube

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Watch the "Distance Learning Features, Part 2" video on YouTube

This video explains how to conduct a Word Warm-ups Live phonics assessment to identify a student's earliest phonics needs. This helps you determine whether Word Warm-ups Live or the Read Naturally Live Phonics series is best suited for a student and where to place a student who is assigned Word Warm-ups Live.

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Watch the "Assessing Phonics Needs" video on YouTube

This video explains how to interpret the results of the Word Warm-ups Live phonics assessment and Read Naturally Live placement test to determine which Read Live intervention(s) are appropriate for a student—Read Naturally Live, Word Warm-ups Live, or both.

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Watch the "Determining a Phonics Intervention" video on YouTube

This video explains the steps a student follows when working through a word-list exercise in Word Warm-ups Live, including Look, Listen, and Respond (a phonics lesson); word-list practice; a spelling activity; Phontastic (a wait-time activity); and a pass step with a review of the student's work.

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Watch the "Working Through a Word-List Exercise" video on YouTube

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 connected text. The student follows these steps: Read Along, Practice, Quick Quiz, Phontastic (a wait-time activity), and a Pass and Review step.

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Watch the "Working Through a Story Exercise" video on YouTube