Basic Information

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Programs within Read Naturally

Student Management

How to add a student to the program

1. Click on the 3 lines > Student Setup
   
   

   Open

   

   1. Click the add students button.

      Open

      

      1. Enter in the student’s first and last names.

      2. Choose the appropriate grade level and the school that the student attends.

      3. In the student User ID, enter in the student’s login

      4. Enter in a password - minimum of 3 characters that the student will use along with the user ID to login.

      5. Choose Yes for liscense this student and then choose yourself or a collague for lead teacher.

      6. Choose which program(s) the student should have access to. Unchecking a program means no access.

         1. By default, Read Naturally Live is checked for the student. Other programs are optional depending on student needs.

      7. Optionally, if the student requires accessibility options you can also enable them here (or turn off if no longer necessary).

      8. Skip Contact 1 and 2 information.

   2. Hit Save and close or Save & add another to add another student.

Assigning Liscenses to Multiple Students

If the student already exsists within the platform, there’s no need to re-create the student, but rather assign a liscense to the student. (Note: Each school year, the liscenses are removed from the students as part of the promotion process).

1. Log into the application.

2. Click on Student Setup button

3. Click on the Application Access button.

4. Choose the school, if you’re at multiple schools.

5. You can choose multiple students or a single student.
   When assigning multiple students a liscense, you’ll also want to make sure that the students will all share the same lead teacher.

   1. For Multiple students: Select the first student in the list that you want to assign a liscense to. Hold the shift button your keyboard, and then select the bottom student.

   2. Click on the “Manage Access to Read Live” button.

   3. Click on the “Add liscenses for selected” button. to add a liscense.

   4. Then select a lead teacher for all these students.

   5. Click ok.

Assigning Liscenses to Individual Student

If the student already exsists within the platform, there’s no need to re-create the student, but rather assign a liscense to the student. (Note: Each school year, the liscenses are removed from the students as part of the promotion process).

1. Log into the application.

2. Click on Student Setup button

3. Click on the Application Access button.

4. Choose the school, if you’re at multiple schools.

5. To assign an individual student to a liscense, from this screen, you can click on the student’s last name and it’ll pop open the edit menu as if you were creating the student.

   1. Update the “Liscense this student” dropdown to “Yes” and update the lead teacher with your name.

   2. You can also optionally assign additional programs from this screen.

   3. Hit Save and close when done to return to the application access screen.
      
      

Read Naturally Live - Working with Students

Conduct Teacher-Led Placement

To assess the student’s level, a teacher-led placement test is done where the student is going to be reading the passage outloud with the teacher sitting next to the student, from the teachers' computer. As the student is reading words, then you, the teacher, will want to keep track of the number of words missed. After 1 minute, there will be a bell that sounds, then the teacher will click on the

1. Log into the portal.

2. Click on Student Activity.

This screen, will show you all the students who are liscensed within the platform and by default limits it down to those students who are assigned to you. You can click on the carrot (>) to the left of the student name to see which applications the student is liscensed to.

3. Expand out the student’s information and then click on the “placement” button.

4. Select the approximate level to begin testing the student. You can also click on the “i” to see more information about the level and test information.

5. Click Next.

6. At this point, you’ll want to click “start timing” and have the student start reading. (Alternatively, you can have the student start reading and once you hear the first word, then you hit the start timing button.).

7. After 1 minute, a bell will sound and then as the teacher, click on the last word that the student read, and then enter in the number of missed words.

8. Click on Next.

9. The next screen shows you the results.

   1. In this example, we can either re-test the student if the level was too hard or too easy for the student OR stop testing the student and choose the appropriate level.

   2. If you choose “Contuine testing”, it’ll send you back to the first placement screen where you can choose another level and re-do the 1 minute testing.

   3. If you choose “stop testing and pick a level”, then you’ll want to select one of the options for the series/level and goal for the student.

   4. Click next.

10. The next screen will ask you to confirm your selection and then also show you the most recent placement test results found under the “Student Placement Report”.

Conduct Student Placememnt

1. Have the student log into the student platform using their userid and password that you created.

   1. Can’t remember the username and password combination? Run the report

2. Click on the tile of conduct placement.

3. Choose the tile of “No, I am working by myself”. (If a student chooses Teacher is with me, it’ll ask the teacher to log in and then go through the steps of teacher led placement steps).

4. A microphone check will show up to ensure that there is

5. Before the student does anything else, you’ll want to watch the video that appears as it’ll show the student how to navigate around on the page. They can re-watch the video by clicking on the video icon with the question mark in the bottom left hand side.

6. BEFORE starting… you’ll want to remind the students about:

   1. Speak clearly and loudly so that the microphone can hear them.

   2. Keep reading even if they are stuck on a word.

   3. Turn the guided reading on or off (instructions)

   4. If there a page turn in a mulit-page story, how to use the next button to turn the page before the bell sounds. (instructions)

   5. If they finish the entire story before the bell sounds, click on the finished button.

7. Click on start timing and begin reading outloud for 1 minute.

8. When the bell sounds, the student will click on the last word that they read.

   1. You might need to wait a few minutes for it to show up. If the level was too easy, then it’ll ask them to re-try another story to get a better idea where to place. Rinse and repeat until it says that there’s a level and story goal that seems like a good fit for the student.

9. Click next.

10. The screen now shows the list of stories that are within the student’s level and they can begin working.

Student’s guide to read naturally placement

Customizing student Story Options

Tailor the program to the student…

1. Log into the staff portal.

2. Click on Student Activity

3. Click the “Application Specific Actions”.

4. Expand the program that the story is apart of it.

   1. Note: If doing a word warmups, then it can only be done from the student portal by clicking on the teacher icon.

5. Choose the specific student (or students).

6. Click on Change story options for selected

   1. By Default, all the steps with the checkmarks are turned on. Adjustments can be made to the program for the student.

If you turn off the quiz or cold timings or change the cold timings from Teacher required to student independently then the data mentor is turned off. (There’s a warning letting you know about it).

Update a series, level, or goal after placement

• If the student is new to Read Naturally Live, then use the placement test to determine the appropriate series, level and story goal. Don’t manually set the series, level and story goal as described above without first going through the placement process unless the student previously worked in a different Read Naturally strategy program.

• This can only be adjusted by the student’s lead teacher or a staff member in the account administrator or school coordinator role.

1. Log into the staff portal.

2. Click on Student Activity

3. From the list of students find the student list who needs adjusting.

4. Expand the student’s row and click on the edit pencil icon under the application.

5. Change or update the information for student. You can also adjust the stories (on or off) within the sets of stories.

6. Click Save and Close to save the changes.

Students: Working within the program - Read Naturally Live

1. Log into the platform (link) with your username and password.

2. Click on Read Naturally Live.

   1. If the student has multiple programs assigned to them, they can choose the program in which they want work with.

   2. Once they’re within the platform, they can swap between different programs at the teachers' discretion by opening the hamburger icon.

3. 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).

   1. Step 1 - Key Words:

      1. Next screen is the key words screen - clicking on each key word it’ll read the definitions and examples.

      2. Click Next once all the key words have been listened to.

   2. Step 2 - Predictions

      1. 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).

   3. Step 3 - Cold Timinigs

      1. 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.

      2. Click the “Conduct Cold Timings” button, enter in your credentials and then have a seat next to the student.

         1. 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.

         2. 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.

         3. 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.

   4. Step 4 - Read Along

      1. Clicking the “Start Read Along” button will have the narrator read the passage to the student with the student following along whisper reading.

         1. Instructional note from ReadLive - suggestion is to have the students whisper-read the passages along with the read along 3x before moving on.

   5. Step 5 - Practice

      1. Notice: There are words in blue that can be linked anmd it’ll show the definitions and an example of the word.

      2. 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.

      3. Once the bell sounds, the student will click on the last word that they read.

      4. 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).

   6. Step 6 -Quiz

      1. 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.

      2. If the students get it correct they’ll hear a “happy” noise. If it’s incorrect it’ll give a “bonk”.

      3. Instructional note from ReadLive:

         1. 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. How to preview stories and questions in printed format.

         2. 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.

   7. Step 7 - Retell

      1. This is an open-ended question. The students can also click on “Review story” to go back to the story.

      2. Instructional note from ReadLive: any accomodations that you would make for writing, you’d make for this step as well.

   8. Step 8 - Pass / Hot Timings

      1. There are red bars in this step. So when you see this, hit the teacher and then enter in their credentials).

      2. 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”.

      3. 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.

      4. The system will now ask you to grade the student’s quiz for any open-ended questions

4. Remedial screen

   1. There is an optional screen where a student can fix the missed questions without needing to through the entire program itself.

How to preview stories or questions

1. Log in to the staff portal.

2. Click on the Student Activity tile.

3. Click on the Application Specific Actions button.

4. Click on Print Stories button

5. Choose the series, level and the story you wish to print.

6. Click print.

   
   
   A PDF of the story and questions will appear and you can print or save them as necessary.

Progress Monitoring

Determine Whether to Raise the Level or the Goal

When you change level and goals, only raise one element at a time once you have determined a change in level or goal is required. After a student completes all the stories in a series/level, raise the student’s level. Typically, a student work in onely one series per level, but if a student would benefit in staying in the current level and if you have another series available that would be appoprirate, you can keep the student in the level by assigning another series.

If you need to make a cahnge after the student has completed only a portion of the stories in a level, consider the student’s comprehension and accuracy, and also use use your judgement.

• If a student frequently scores less than 80% correct on the quiz questions on the first try, don’t change the level.

• If a student has high error rates during cold or hot timings because they lack the oral vocabulary to read the current level of material or lacks the phonics skills to decode the words in this level, don’t change the level.

• If the student has a high error dates due to carlessness or a desire for speed, don’t change the goal reading rates.

If the student comprehension is good and error rates are low, consider the gains that they need to make in level of material and reading rates to achieve their long term fluency goal. The student’s long term fluency goal is typically reading unpraticed, grade-level material at a rate that is at least the 50% percentile of national norms.

Once you have decided which element to raise - level or goal - follow the guidelines below to help ensure the student’s continued success.

• Typically, raise levels by half a year at a time. In rare cases, you may raise levels by a whole year if a student is reading in a level 3.0 or above and has made significant fluency progress, comprehends well and can handle the extra challenge.

• Raise goals by 10 words at a time.

• Discuss the change with the student, asking for input.

How to change the studetn’s series, level or goal

Reports

Student 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…

1. Log into the staff portal.

2. Click on Reports.

3. Click on Student Password(s).

4. Place a checkbox in the next student(s) to select those who you want to generate the report cord.

5. Click the blue “Generate Report for Selected” button.