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Log into the platform (link) with your username and password.
Click on Read Naturally Live.
If the student has multiple programs assigned to them, they can choose the program in which they want work with.
Once they’re within the platform, they can swap between different programs at the teachers' discretion by opening the hamburger icon.
It’ll ask the student to choose a story to begin working with and if they want to confirm the story choice. Now onto the steps for the student… (Note: From the customizing the program for students, these can be turned on / off or adjusted to make it harder / easier for the students).
Step 1 - Key Words:
Next screen is the key words screen - clicking on each key word it’ll read the definitions and examples.
Click Next once all the key words have been listened to.
Step 2 - Predictions
Using the key words that they just learned about along with an image to make a prediction about the story. (Note: The box only remembers what is typed. So the teacher can scribe the response into the box and/or use other tools as necessary to get something entered into this box, but it is also required).
Step 3 - Cold Timinigs
While waiting for the teacher, the bars will go red and the student can work for independently. The red bars is a visual indicator for you to assist.
Click the “Conduct Cold Timings” button, enter in your credentials and then have a seat next to the student.
This screen is very similar to the placement – options to turn on / off with the reading guide. It’ll give the student 1 minute to read.
If there is a word that is difficult or unknown to the student, have them click on the word and keep going. The system will keep track of this and take into account for the score.
Clicking Next - it’ll show the goal vs how the student did. Through the next steps of the program, it’ll help the student reach their goal.
Step 4 - Read Along
Clicking the “Start Read Along” button will have the narrator read the passage to the student with the student following along whisper reading.
Instructional note from ReadLive - suggestion is to have the students whisper-read the passages along with the read along 3x before moving on.
Step 5 - Practice
Notice: There are words in blue that can be linked anmd it’ll show the definitions and an example of the word.
This is an independent step where the passage will show up. Hit start timings to start reading for 1 minute, and attempt to meet their goal.
Once the bell sounds, the student will click on the last word that they read.
The next button is greyed out until they meet their goal (answer all the quiz questions correctly; read the story at their goal rate and reading at a high accuracy of less than 3 errors).
Step 6 -Quiz
This is a multi-step question to test the student’s comprehension. The questions are always in the same order so you can analyze how the students are doing. Student must get all the questions correct before moving on.
If the students get it correct they’ll hear a “happy” noise. If it’s incorrect it’ll give a “bonk”.
Instructional note from ReadLive:
Some students might need to “preview” the questions before getting into the story and you can print out the story and questions for those students.
There are a variety of questions asked – to multiple choice, open ended questions, matching (between column A to B ), fill in the blank. Question 1 is ALWAYS a “main idea” question of the story.
Step 7 - Retell
This is an open-ended question. The students can also click on “Review story” to go back to the story.
Instructional note from ReadLive: any accomodations that you would make for writing, you’d make for this step as well.
Step 8 - Pass / Hot Timings
There are red bars in this step. So when you see this, hit the teacher and then enter in their credentials).
Hit the start timing button and have the student begin to read aloud with the teacher keeping track of number of words missed. You are also listening for an expression. (A minimum of expression score of 2+ is a “pass”.
After 1 minute, the bell will sound and choose the last word that they read outloud. Then the teacher enters in the number of words missed and the student’s expression score. Click next.
The system will now ask you to grade the student’s quiz for any open-ended questions
Remedial screen
There is an optional screen where a student can fix the missed questions without needing to through the entire program itself.
Reports
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Username and Password
If you have a student who used the program before and can’t remember their password, or has forgotten it without resetting it…
Log into the staff portal.
Click on Reports.
Click on Student Password(s).
Place a checkbox in the next student(s) to select those who you want to generate the report cord.
Click the blue “Generate Report for Selected” button.
