Students must complete the story steps in order. Before moving on to the next step, the student must complete the requirements for the current step. On most pages, the Next button on the bottom right becomes enabled when the student has completed all the required actions for the step. The student clicks Next to advance to the next step.
Read Live User Guide
- Orientation to This User Guide
- Part One: Read Live Overview
- Getting Started
- Using Read Live
- Updating Account Information
- Updating Your Information
- Working with School Information
- Working with Staff Member Information
- Working with Student Information
- Adding a Student
- Importing Student Data
- Enabling Single Sign-On for your account's students
- Updating Student Information
- Updating Information for Multiple Students by Importing
- Creating a Student Passwords Report
- Changing a Student's Read Naturally Live Lead Teacher
- Changing a Student's Homeroom
- Changing a Student's Status
- Changing a Student's School
- Changing a Student's Grade
- Advancing Student Grades by Starting a New School Year
- Deleting a Student
- Merging Student Records
- Working with Licenses and Access to Applications
- Working with Homerooms
- Working with Personal Groups
- Distance Learning Tools
- Part Two: Read Naturally Live and Read Naturally Live–Español
- The Read Naturally Strategy
- Teacher Responsibilities Overview
- Placing Students in Read Naturally Live
- Series and Levels
- Goals
- Conducting a One-Minute Timing
- Counting Errors
- Conducting the Placement Test
- Independent Placement for Students
- Conducting the Placement Timing Manually
- Entering the Series, Level, and Goal
- Enabling and disabling individual stories in a level
- Troubleshooting Placement
- Assigning Access to Read Naturally Live–Español
- Assigning a Level and Goal in Read Naturally Live–Español
- Setting Up
- Implementing the Steps
- Program Basics
- Common Features of the Stories Screens
- Starting the Program
- Exiting the Program
- Moving Between Read Live Applications
- Checking the Header
- Checking the Progress Bar
- Advancing Through the Steps
- Repeating Audio Instructions
- Checking Series, Level, and Goal
- Turning the Reading Guide On or Off
- Viewing Additional Pages in a Multi-Page Story
- Completing the Select a Story Step
- Completing the Key Words Step
- Completing the Prediction Step
- Completing the Cold Timing Step
- Completing the Read Along Step
- Completing the Practice Step
- Completing the Quiz Step
- Completing the Retell Step
- Completing the Word List Step
- Completing the Spelling Step
- Completing the Pass Step
- Pass Step Overview
- Waiting for the Teacher
- Conducting a Hot Timing
- Rating Expression
- Retesting a Hot Timing
- Correcting the Quiz
- Correcting the Retelling
- Conducting the Phonics Word-List Pass Timing
- Retesting the Phonics Word-List Pass Timing
- Reviewing Student Work
- Reviewing Data Mentor Suggestions
- Options for Students Who Do Not Pass
- Interpreting the Congratulations Screen
- Resetting Stories
- Using the Phonics Series
- Using Read Naturally Live–Español and its Steps
- Program Basics
- Story Options: Customizing the Program for Students
- Opening Story Options for Read Naturally Live or Read Naturally Live–Español
- Turning Steps Off and On
- Setting the Time Limit for the Prediction Step
- Allowing Students to Complete the Cold Timing Step Independently
- Setting the Number and Speed of Required Read Alongs
- Turning On the Spanish or English Read Along Steps
- Setting the Number of Required Practices
- Changing the Duration of Practice Timings
- Setting the Time Limit for the Retell Step
- Setting the Duration of the Word List Timing
- Enabling or disabling a student's recording features Story Option
- Enabling or disabling Full Audio Directions for a student
- Restoring Story Options to Their Default Values
- Monitoring Student Performance
- Communicating With Parents/Guardians
- Part Three: Word Warm-ups Live
- Giving students access to Word Warm-ups-Live
- Opening Word Warm-ups Live as a student
- Placing students in Word Warm-ups Live using a phonics assessment
- Word Warm-ups Live sections and exercise types
- Implementing the steps of Word Warm-ups Live exercises
- Steps in a Word Warm-ups Live Word List exercise
- Completing the Look, Listen & Respond step
- Completing the Decode & Read Along step
- Completing the Practice Word List step
- Completing the Spelling Step
- Completing the Word List Pass step
- Reviewing the student's Pass / Word List Graph
- Reviewing the student's Word List exercise work on Pass / Review Work
- Options for Students Who Do Not Pass
- Ranks on Word List exercises
- Steps in a Word Warm-ups Live Story exercise
- Playing Phontastic while waiting for a teacher
- Resetting Exercises
- Steps in a Word Warm-ups Live Word List exercise
- Exercise options: Customizing Word Warm-ups Live for Students
- Changing Decode & Read Along requirements for a student
- Setting the number of Word List Practices
- Setting the Duration of Word List Timings
- Setting the number of Read Alongs
- Setting the number of Story Practices
- Enabling or disabling Full Audio Directions for a student
- Choosing the Story exercise version for a student
- Monitoring Student Performance
- Printing Word Warm-ups Exercises
- Part Four: One Minute Reader Live
- Assigning Access to One Minute Reader Live
- Placing Students in One Minute Reader Live
- One Minute Reader Live Levels, Books, and Stories
- Story Options: Customizing the Program for One Minute Reader Students
- Implementing the Steps of One Minute Reader Live
- Monitoring Performance of One Minute Reader Live Students
- Bibliography
Advancing Through the Steps
- Part Two: Read Naturally Live and Read Naturally Live–Español
- Implementing the Steps
- Program Basics
- Advancing Through the Steps
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