Read Naturally is a targeted reading curriculum designed to develop fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing skills. Students are selected to participate in this intervention based on fluency screening conducted in the fall of each school year.

Steps in ReadLive:

​Read Naturally Live Steps

1. Select a Story
   The student clicks on the story he or she wants to read.

2. Key Words
   In the Sequenced and Idioms series, the student reads the key words and their definitions while listening to an audio recording. The key words provide definitions that are important to understanding the story. In the Phonics series, the student listens to a phonics lesson and reads words that have the featured phonics patterns.

3. Prediction
   The student uses the title, picture, and key words to write a prediction of what he or she thinks the story is about. The prediction prepares the student’s mind for reading the story.

4. Cold Timing
   The student reads the passage aloud with a proctor. This step establishes a baseline for the lesson.

5. Read Along
   The student reads along quietly with a recording of the story, typically three times. This step is the teacher-modeling component of the Read Naturally Strategy, which helps the student learn new words and master others as well as learn proper pronunciation, expression, and phrasing.

6. Practice
   The student practices reading the story without audio support three to ten times until able to read it accurately, with expression, and at the goal rate.

7. Quiz
   The student answers questions about the story. Responding to the text holds the student accountable for meaning, develops the ability to answer many types of questions, and provides teachers with information about how well the student comprehends the story.

8. Retell/Word List
   In the Sequenced and Idioms series, the student retells or summarizes the story to improve comprehension.
   In the Phonics series, the student works on decoding skills by practicing the word list until able to read it accurately at a predetermined rate.

9. ​Pass
   The student reads the story for the teacher to show that he or she can read it at the goal rate, with appropriate expression, and with three or fewer errors. The teacher corrects the comprehension questions and the retelling of the story (if applicable) and reviews the results with the student.
   
   In the Phonics series, the student also reads the word list to show that he or she can read it with three or fewer errors at the goal rate. ​A graph shows how much the student’s fluency has improved since the cold timing.