Since 1991, Read Naturally has established highly effective strategies and best practices to help struggling and developing readers be successful. In order to share these ideas and strategies, we host free webinars on a range of literacy instruction topics. Please join us for a live webinar when they're scheduled or watch one of our many recorded webinars.
Recordings of past webinars
Back to School with Read Live
This webinar describes and demonstrates account maintenance and setup activities that Read Live administrators and other staff members need to perform at the beginning of a new school year.
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Read Live Basics
This webinar gives an overview of Read Live, our web-based suite of four reading intervention programs—Read Naturally Live, Word Warm-ups Live, One Minute Reader Live, and Read Naturally Live—Español.
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Back to School with Read Live
This webinar describes and demonstrates account maintenance and setup activities that Read Live administrators and other staff members need to perform at the beginning of a new school year.
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Set-up in Read Live: One School
Attend this webinar for a brief navigation of Read Live. Learn how to set up Read Live for an account with one school. There will be time for Q&A after the short presentation.
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Read Live Set-up: Multiple Schools
Attend this webinar for a brief navigation of Read Live. Learn how to set up Read Live for an account with multiple schools and multiple teachers. Read Live currently supports Single Sign-On for Classlink, Clever, and Google Classroom. There will be time for Q&A after the short presentation.
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Read Naturally Live Basics
This webinar gives an overview of Read Naturally Live, the flagship program in web-based Read Live that focuses on fluency and phonics with strong supports for vocabulary and comprehension.
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Diana Phillips, Read Naturally Curriculum Associate
Wednesday, August 16, 2023
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM CDT
One Minute Reader Live Basics
Get students started reading at their level on the first day of school! Join us for an overview and demonstration of One Minute Reader Live, Read Live’s independent reading program.
One Minute Reader Live transforms independent reading time into an exciting, guided reading experience. Interesting short passages, motivating graphs, and fun activities that engage students and deliver measurable results. Using the research-based Read Naturally Strategy in a fully independent and motivating program, One Minute Reader Live helps students develop fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary skills, and build confidence as learners.
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Back to School with Read Live
This webinar describes and demonstrates account maintenance and setup activities that Read Live administrators and other staff members need to perform at the beginning of a new school year.
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Word Warm-ups Live Basics
This webinar gives an overview of Word Warm-ups Live, a component of web-based Read Live that builds automaticity in phonics and decoding through explicit and systematic phonics instruction.
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Set-up in Read Live: One School
Attend this webinar for a brief navigation of Read Live. Learn how to set up Read Live for an account with one school. There will be time for Q&A after the short presentation.
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Placement in Read Naturally Live
Placement is the process of selecting reading material and setting an initial goal for a student who is about to begin using Read Naturally Live. Placing a student in Read Naturally Live involves determining the following:
Correct placement is crucial to success in Read Naturally Live. You must select a combination of reading material and goal rate that will challenge the student without being discouraging. The material and the goal rate need to be difficult enough to require the student to practice reading the story several times to reach his or her goal, even after the student has read along with audio recordings of the story. However, the level and goal should not be so difficult that the student gives up because of frustration.
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Read Live Set-up: Multiple Schools
Attend this webinar for a brief navigation of Read Live. Learn how to set up Read Live for an account with multiple schools and multiple teachers. Read Live currently supports Single Sign-On for Classlink, Clever, and Google Classroom. There will be time for Q&A after the short presentation.
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Read Naturally Encore II: Overview and Student Steps
Differentiate instruction easily using Read Naturally Encore II, a powerful intervention that accelerates reading achievement by using the research-based Read Naturally Strategy in a print/CD format. Students become confident readers by developing fluency, phonics skills, comprehension, and vocabulary while reading leveled text. This time-tested intervention program engages students with interesting nonfiction stories and yields powerful results.
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Back to School with Read Live
This webinar describes and demonstrates account maintenance and setup activities that Read Live administrators and other staff members need to perform at the beginning of a new school year.
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Read Live Basics
This webinar gives an overview of Read Live, our web-based suite of four reading intervention programs—Read Naturally Live, Word Warm-ups Live, One Minute Reader Live, and Read Naturally Live—Español.
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Placement in Word Warm-ups Live
Correct placement is crucial to success in Word Warm-ups Live. The program consists of three levels with multiple sections in each level. Each section focuses on different phonics elements. Phonics elements are taught in a specific order, so it is important to determine the earliest element of phonics the student has not yet mastered. The Word Warm-ups Live Phonics Assessment determines:
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Set-up in Read Live: One School
Attend this webinar for a brief navigation of Read Live. Learn how to set up Read Live for an account with one school. There will be time for Q&A after the short presentation.
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Placement in Read Naturally Encore II
Proper placement is critical to student success in Read Naturally Encore II. By properly placing students, you can accelerate their achievement. Learn how to use the Encore II Placement Packet to maximize student success.
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Read Live Set-up: Multiple Schools
Attend this webinar for a brief navigation of Read Live. Learn how to set up Read Live for an account with multiple schools and multiple teachers. Read Live currently supports Single Sign-On for Classlink, Clever, and Google Classroom. There will be time for Q&A after the short presentation.
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Checking Initial Placement in Read Naturally Live
Proper placement is critical to student success. You can accelerate a student's achievement by using Read Naturally Live's built-in placement test and then checking initial placement after the student has completed the first three stories. By checking initial placement, you can determine if the student's initial level and goal are appropriate, or if you should adjust either the level or the goal.
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Read Naturally Live Basics
This webinar gives an overview of Read Naturally Live, the flagship program in web-based Read Live that focuses on fluency and phonics with strong supports for vocabulary and comprehension.
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Presenter:
Michelle Brenner, Read Naturally Curriculum Associate
Thursday, September 21, 2023
2:00 PM - 2:45 AM CDT
Foundational Reading Skills, Part 1
Students must develop foundational skills to become proficient readers. Standards define what foundational reading skills students should be able to do (K-5), but standards do not tell teachers how to teach. Learn the predictors of reading success and how to implement Read Naturally’s research-based strategies to accelerate reading development.
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Foundational Reading Skills, Part 2
Students must develop foundational skills to become proficient readers. Standards define what foundational reading skills students should be able to do (K-5), but standards do not tell teachers how to teach. Learn the predictors of reading success and how to implement Read Naturally’s research-based strategies to accelerate reading development.
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