Intervention Programs
Word Warm-ups® Live
Component of Read Live
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- Phonics
- Fluency
- Spelling
- Phonemic
Awareness
Intervention Range: Beginning Reader to Adult Learner
Build mastery and automaticity in phonics, decoding, and word analysis with systematic phonics instruction and multiple opportunities for students to decode and encode words easily within Word Warm-ups Live. Audio-supported phonics and word analysis lessons allow for individualization and enable students to work independently. Students progress through three sequential levels, from reading consonant-vowel-consonant words like bat, to multi-syllabic words like precautionary.
A Component of Read LiveStudents...
- Improve word recognition.
- Learn to use word patterns to decode rapidly.
- Read words with the featured patterns in connected text.
- Decode increasingly difficult phonetically regular words.
- Reinforce featured phonics skills by spelling phonetically regular words.
Word Warm-ups Live provides...
- Differentiation for students who need additional phonics instruction.
- Motivation through graphing progress.
- Practice and systematic review to solidify learning.
- Instruction in the most common phonics, syllable, and affix patterns.
- An assessment to place students in the appropriate level and lesson.
Word Warm-ups Live develops accuracy and automaticity in decoding through a modified version of the powerful Read Naturally Strategy of teacher modeling, repeated reading, and progress monitoring. Students work on short audio-supported phonics exercises for as little as 10 minutes a day as reading warm-ups or up to 30 minutes a day as an intervention.
INTRODUCTION TO EACH SECTION
The student clicks on a picture and hears a lesson about the word or letter under the picture. This instructional step provides teacher modeling. There are multiple sections in each level, each section focusing on intervention of different elements:
| Level 1: One-syllable words | Level 2: Two-syllable words | Level 3: Multi-syllabic words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Letter sounds Short vowels Long vowels with silent e Long vowel teams Consonant digraphs Consonant blends Vowels and the consonant r Soft and silent consonants Other vowel teams | Review Level 1 skills in compound words Review Level 1 skills in more compound words Base words not changed by suffixes Base words changed by suffixes Words with two syllables Closed and open syllables Two-syllable words with suffixes Two-syllable words with prefixes | Word parts: prefixes |
Select an Exercise
The student chooses an exercise to work in. Each section has six to nine exercises. Most exercises are word-list exercises, but each section has a story exercise.
WORD-LIST EXERCISES
If a student selects any exercise other than the story exercise, the student will see the following steps:
Look, Listen, and Respond
The student clicks a picture to hear a lesson about a featured sound, syllable, or affix. The student responds to the instruction by segmenting the featured word before reading it aloud. Then, the student clicks each of the five words to segment and reads each word with the narrator. This step helps the student learn the featured sounds or phonics patterns and provides teacher modeling.
Decode & Read Along
The Decode & Read Along step helps a student learn to decode an exercise's word list by reading the list twice. When the student chooses Start Read Along on this page, the application:
- first reads down the columns in the word list, playing a decoding animation with audio for each word; and
- then reads across the rows of the word list, pronouncing each word.
Word List
Before a timing, a student can click any word to see it divided into word parts and hear each word part, as well as the whole word. Then, the student reads the words in the exercise word list, down the columns and across the rows, clicking any word he or she doesn’t know to hear the word read. The student clicks finished and sees the number of words read per minute.
The student practices reading the word lists independently until he or she can read all of the words correctly. As the student practices many words with the featured pattern, he or she learns to decode the pattern more easily and to read the words with automaticity.
This step is the repeated reading component of the Read Naturally Strategy, which helps the student apply the featured sounds, phonics patterns, or language structure to master the words. This step also allows a student to monitor progress, the component of the Read Naturally Strategy that motivates the student to improve. The student can see the number of words read per minute (wpm) and can compare the number of words read to a rank that runs from Warming-up to Shooting Star.
Spelling
The student spells five words from the word list. The student listens to a word and sentence about the word and attempts to spell the word. Then, the student clicks Show Me to see if her spelling of the word is correct or if any changes are needed to make the spelling correct. The student gets full credit if she can spell the word correctly on the first try.
Phontastic
While the student waits for the teacher to do the pass timing on the word list and spelling words, the student reviews skills in a game format. All items in the game are clickable to support students’ varying needs and support growth in phonemic awareness, phonics, and word analysis. Requiring that the student attain a certain number of points while waiting (e.g., 10) is a good idea.
Pass Timing
The teacher listens to the student read the word list. To pass, the student must read all the words down the columns, then across the rows, at or above the student's wcpm goal rate with three or fewer errors.
Graph of Pass Score
A graph of the hot-timing score shows the student’s score in red along with the rank the student attained.
Pass/Review Work
The teacher reviews the student’s work in this exercise with the student and assigns any remedial options.
STORY EXERCISE
If a student selects the story exercise, the student will see the following steps:
Read Along
The read along gives students a chance to read words with the featured phonics patterns in connected text. Ideally, students work through the story exercise after completing the word list exercises.
The student reads along quietly with a recording of a passage that contains words with the featured sounds taught in the section. The read along provides the teacher modeling component of the Read Naturally Strategy, which models correct pronunciation and helps the student learn new words and master others.
Practice
The student practices reading all or part of the story independently a set number of times chosen by the teacher. In Word Warm-ups Live, this reading isn’t timed, and there’s no fluency score. In Word Warm-ups, the purpose of the story is to have students read words with the featured phonics patterns in connected text.
Quick Quiz
The student completes a modified cloze question about the story. Each answer choice uses a featured sound from the section and provides another opportunity for the student to use the featured patterns in connected text. Responding to the text also holds the student accountable for meaning.
Phontastic
While the student waits for the teacher to do the pass timing on the Story and Quick Quiz, the student reviews phonics skills in a game format. All items in the game are clickable to support students’ varying needs and support growth in phonemic awareness, phonics, and word analysis.
Pass/Story Review
This activity provides an opportunity for the student to apply the featured phonics elements in the context of a story. You may have the student read all or part of the story; modify your expectations based on what you know about the student.
Pass/Review Quick Quiz
The teacher can review the student’s responses to the quiz and offer guidance in how to correct errors. This page has a dropdown to show either the student’s responses or the correct answers. The student has the opportunity to correct the answers if the teacher assigns this option on the Remedial page.
Word Warm-ups Live is a component of the Read Live platform—a subscription program that is licensed per student. Teachers can reassign licenses if students leave the program.
A printable phonics assessment helps a teacher decide whether students should use Read Naturally Live, a specific level of Word Warm-ups Live, or both programs for students needing decoding intervention. A student must be placed in a level of Read Naturally Live in order to work in Word Warm-ups.
A student works through the sections in the Word Warm-ups Live student program, and the teacher manages the student's progress in the Word Warm-ups Live teacher program.
STUDENT PROGRAM
Word Warm-ups Live includes access to 69 exercises in nine sections of Level 1, 68 exercises in eight sections of Level 2, and 48 exercises in seven sections of Level 3. Each section has six to nine exercises and focuses on intervention for different phonics elements or word analysis:
| Level 1:One-syllable words | Level 2: Two-syllable words | Level 3: Multi-syllabic words |
|---|---|---|
| Letter sounds Short vowels Long vowels with silent e Long vowel teams Consonant digraphs Consonant blends Vowels and the consonant r Soft and silent consonants Other vowel teams | Review Level 1 skills in compound words Review Level 1 skills in more compound words Base words not changed by suffixes Base words changed by suffixes Words with two syllables Closed and open syllables Two-syllable words with suffixes Two-syllable words with prefixes | Word parts: prefixes |
Word Warm-ups Live scope and sequence
Key activities include:
- Word lists of words with featured patterns
After receiving direct instruction in the featured phonics elements, affix, or word analysis of each exercise, the student practices reading the word lists to develop decoding skills and automaticity in reading the words. - Spelling activity
The student spells five words from the word list to link the decoding and encoding of featured phonics patterns, deepening the student’s mastery of both reading and spelling skills. - Story exercise and Quick Quiz
A high-interest, nonfiction story in each section provides the opportunity to read words with the featured pattern(s) in connected text. The student demonstrates an understanding of the story during a Quick Quiz.
Extensive audio support includes:
- Audio directions for each step of the process.
- Audio lessons in the introduction to the section and in a Look, Listen, Respond format.
- A paced recording of the story that models correct pronunciation and expression.
- Pronunciation of words in the word list or story when clicked.
- Auditory signals that indicate if a student's responses to the spelling or quiz items are correct or incorrect.
Structured instructional process includes:
- Automated steps built around teacher modeling, repeated reading, and progress monitoring.
- A wait-time activity to improve phonemic awareness, phonics and decoding skills, as well as word analysis skills.
Computerized scoring and reports include:
- Calculation of word list fluency scores.
- Automated correction of modified cloze questions and spelling items.
- Graphs and reports showing student performance.
TEACHER PROGRAM
Set up of account for district, building, classroom, staff, and/or students include:
- Enrolling staff and students.
- Licensing students.
- Support for ClassLink and Google login using G Suite for Education.
Management of student programs includes:
- A printable placement test.
- Easily customized options for individual students.
- Word list or spelling reports.
- Printable exercises, reports, and awards.
Online documentation includes:
- Step-by-step instructions for working in the software
- Training videos that explain how to set up the software and work with students in the program.
ONLINE RESOURCES AND TECH SUPPORT
To help you implement Read Live successfully, Read Naturally provides free web resources and tech support.
Learn more about Read Naturally's online resources and tech support
Word Warm-ups Live is an integrated component of the Read Live platform.
- Word Warm-ups Live Word List Graph
This report shows a student's words correct per minute results for completed word-list exercises, based on the most recent attempt. - Word Warm-ups Live Spelling Graph
This report shows the number of words a student spelled correctly on the first attempt for each spelling activity. - Word Warm-ups Live Exercise Details report
This report shows a student's detailed results for a word-list exercise. - Word Warm-ups Live Student Level report
This report describes students' work across all the sections and exercises in one or more levels.
Word Warm-ups Live is an integrated part of the Read Live platform. All Read Live licenses enable full access to the Word Warm-ups Live curriculum as well as access to the Read Naturally Live curriculum, One Minute Reader Live curriculum, and Read Naturally Live-Español curriculum.
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I am a grade 5/6 Special Education Teacher. I have been using Read Naturally for 6 years. I love the programs!! This year I am using both Read Live and Word Warm-ups with my students. I have 1 group using Read Live for fluency and comprehension focus, while another group is working at the decoding level, using Word Warm-Ups for independent practice. The students not only love using the programs for their reading, but they love being able to see their progress. It makes them very excited to continue improving their reading.
Mary Meisner Feb 27, 2024
I am using Read Naturally as an intervention with 3rd and 5th grade students. Read Naturally Live with the phonics component added is a great way to get students to work on comprehension, fluency, and phonics. Students like getting to choose the stories too.
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I have used Read Naturally in four different settings, and have had great student response. I am currently using it with Special Education high school students who are mostly reading at an elementary level. They find the stories to be high interest, and it often sparks discussions with the aides or others in the class when they share the content they have learned. I have my aides working directly with students, too, observing the cold timing and working on the pass activities, so students are able to advance at their own pace without much down time.
Students also love seeing their improvement from cold reading to hot reading, and work to improve their answers on the comprehension questions. If they get a comprehension question wrong after two tries, I work with them directly to show them how to figure out the correct answer. I love the data collection piece of Read Naturally. I am able to share the results with parents and the IEP team, so we know exactly which areas we need to work on. Some of the parents have requested copies of the stories, too, so they can see exactly what their child is learning and how they are answering.
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