Read Live Help

This short video provides a quick introduction to working in 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This video demonstrates how teachers or assistants conduct timed readings in Read Naturally Live for placement, cold timings, or hot timings.  The video covers the mechanics of starting a timing, identifying errors, ending a timing, and rating expression.  The video also offers an opportunity to practice identifying errors as a student reads.

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.

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.

This video demonstrates the thought process, reports, and tools needed to check initial placement.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This video demonstrates a waiting list of students who need a teacher's help to continue working, a Login As tool that allows a teacher to login as the student to conduct a timing, and Team feature that lets any Lead Teacher share access to students on the Waiting List with a Team of other Teachers and Read Live Assistants.

This video demonstrates a recording feature that allows students to save their readings during the Pass step, enabling the teacher to score the hot timings later.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This video demonstrates the steps of One Minute Reader Live, an independent reading program that builds fluency and supports vocabulary and comprehension.  The video covers logging in, placement, selecting a story to work on, working through the guided steps, and viewing the results.