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Read Naturally isn’t a huge company, but that doesn’t stop us from winning huge awards. Hundreds of education professionals voted for the technology tools they find most essential in education via THE Journal’s first-ever Readers’ Choice Awards. We’re proud to announce that Read Naturally won a silver medal in the category of Interventions & Remediation. Read more

Congratulations Sudeys H. from St. Louis Park, MN, on being selected as the August Read Naturally Star Student! Sudeys made great strides in his reading as a second grader at Banaadir Academy. His teacher, Ms. Kolbo, had the following to say about her work with Sudeys. Read more

A good educator finds strategies and programs that work and implements them in the classroom. A great educator begins with an effective strategy or program and then develops ways to extend the learning even further. Kristin McDaniel, a first-grade teacher in San Juan Capistrano, CA, is one of the great ones. Pleased with the results she was seeing from Read Naturally’s spelling program, Signs for Sounds, Kristin asked herself how she could capitalize on her students’ momentum. Was there a way to reinforce and solidify their understanding of the word patterns and high-frequency words featured in the program? Read more

It's time to head back to the classroom with Read Naturally's Read Live program. Learn more about our online reading assessment and intervention tools during this limited availability public webinar offered exclusively to you and your staff. Read more

I recently came across an old blog post from 2013 about the Little Free Library movement that has taken off in neighborhoods across the world. Read more

As everyone scrambles to get ready for the 2015–16 school year, Read Naturally is taking a minute to thank teachers for their support. Read more

In the Tom Hanks + Meg Ryan blockbuster “You’ve Got Mail,” a giant book superstore opens up right next to a small, independent bookstore. The movie explores how the two businesses are different. The giant store offers a wider selection. The small store provides a more personal touch. The giant store does a decent job at many things; the small store does an excellent job at a few things. Read more

Prior to becoming Read Naturally’s Educational Consultant, Karen Hunter was a reading specialist, special education teacher, and teacher trainer for 30 years in California. Karen is always brainstorming ways to teach valuable skills to students, and she has a knack for developing creative and motivating tools. This past year, our blog featured three posts by Karen, each one including a free resource she developed. Readers couldn’t download the content quickly enough. In case you missed them, we wanted to share them again. Read more

Where’s the best place to find free resources to help your struggling readers? We offer a multitude of them on our website—specifically in the Knowledgebase. The Knowledgebase is full of valuable resources, including downloadable materials, how-to videos, research studies, product samples, and much more. We created this data hub to give educators easy access to absolutely everything they need to turn struggling readers into successful ones. Read more

Researchers in academic settings frequently conduct studies of our programs. Overwhelmingly, these studies demonstrate the positive effects of a Read Naturally intervention. For example, Dr. Jayna Jensen recently conducted a study in which Special Education students at a middle school in California used Read Naturally Software Edition (SE). The study found that the Read Naturally intervention produced statistically significant gains in the students’ California Modified English Assessment (CMA) scores. Read more