Webinars
Since 1991, Read Naturally has established highly effective strategies and best practices to help struggling and developing readers be successful. In order to share these ideas and strategies, we host free webinars on a range of literacy instruction topics. Please join us for a live webinar when they're scheduled or watch one of our many recorded webinars.
Recordings of past webinars
UPCOMING WEBINARS
Back to School with Read Live
Tuesday, September 9, 2025 | 11:00 AM CT
This webinar provides a description and demonstration of the account maintenance and setup activities that Read Live administrators and other staff members need to perform at the beginning of a new school year.
Topics covered:
- Overview of the Staff Module
- Staff roles
- Advancing grades and reassigning licenses
- Licensing
- Single sign-on options
- Importing and exporting data
- Distance learning features
- Training staff members
- New features and updates
Read Live: Basics
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 | 11:00 AM CT
This webinar gives an overview of Read Live, our online suite of four reading programs—Read Naturally Live, Word Warm-ups Live, One Minute Reader Live, and Read Naturally Live—Español.
Topics covered:
- What is fluency
- Oral reading fluency norms
- How the Read Naturally strategy works
- Why the Read Naturally strategy works
- Which needs each program addresses
- Read Live's benefits for students and teachers
- Resources available on the Read Naturally website, including the Read Live Help page
Read Naturally Live: Checking Initial Placement
Thursday, September 18, 2025 | 1:00 PM CT
Proper placement is critical to accelerating student achievement. You can set students up for success by using Read Naturally Live's built-in placement test and then checking initial placement after the student has completed the first three stories. Our new Data Mentor feature provides suggestions for level and goal adjustments. By checking initial placement, you can determine if the student's initial level and goal are appropriate, or if you should adjust either the level or the goal.
Topics covered:
- Why proper placement is critical to each student’s success
- Why it’s important to check a student’s initial placement
- Why the teacher should be present during the cold timing for at least the first three to six stories
- Where to locate the Data Mentor suggestions for each student
- How to generate a Students At-a-Glance report and how to analyze the data
- The key indicators used to evaluate a student’s initial placement level and goal
- How to determine when a student’s initial level and goal are appropriate and when a student’s initial level or goal should be adjusted
- How to adjust a series, level, or goal within Read Live
- Where to find free resources on the Read Naturally website
Read Live: Account Set-up
Thursday, September 25, 2025 | 11:00 AM CT
Attend this webinar for a brief navigation of Read Live set-up with Student Import.
Topics covered:
- Read Live initial login
- Main navigation menu and home page overview
- How to create Schools
- How to create Teachers
- How to import Student data
- Single Sign-on
- Clever
- Classlink (Rostering and SSO)
- Single Sign-on
- How to assign Licenses in Bulk
- How to add Application access for Word Warm-ups Live
Foundational Reading Skills, Part 1
Tuesday, September 30, 2025 | 11:00 AM CT
Students must develop foundational skills to become proficient readers. Standards define what foundational reading skills students should be able to do (K-5), but standards do not tell teachers how to teach. Learn more about the predictors of reading success and how to implement research-based strategies to accelerate reading development.
Topics covered:
- Learn which foundational reading skills serve as predictors for reading success.
- Understand the research about effective strategies for teaching print concepts and phonological awareness.
- Connect the Science of Reading to instructional practices.
- Understand the application of the research in the lesson design and strategies used in Funēmics and Read Naturally GATE+.
- Understand how to apply effective practices using Read Naturally programs or teachers’ current programs to maximize student progress.
Audience:
- Beginning teachers
- General education teachers
- Reading teachers/specialists
- Reading interventionists
- Literacy coaches
- Early childhood specialists
- Paraeducators
- School or district administrators
- Special education teachers
- Title I teachers
- RTI/MTSS coordinators
Foundational Reading Skills, Part 2
Tuesday, October 2, 2025 | 11:00 AM CT
Students must develop foundational skills to become proficient readers. Standards define what foundational reading skills students should be able to do (K-5), but standards do not tell teachers how to teach. Learn more about the predictors of reading success and how to implement research-based strategies to accelerate reading development.
Topics Covered
- Learn which foundational reading skills serve as predictors for reading success.
- Understand the research about effective strategies for teaching phonics and word recognition and fluency.
- Connect the Science of Reading to instructional practices.
- Understand the application of the research in the lesson design and strategies used in Read Naturally GATE+, Word Warm-ups, and Read Live programs.
- Recognize the role of progress monitoring and ongoing assessment in differentiating instruction.
- Understand how to apply effective practices using Read Naturally programs or teachers’ current programs to maximize student progress.
Audience:
- Beginning teachers
- General education teachers
- Reading teachers/specialists
- Reading interventionists
- Literacy coaches
- Early childhood specialists
- Paraeducators
- School or district administrators
- Special education teachers
- Title I teachers
- RTI/MTSS coordinators
Read Naturally Live: Basics
Wednesday, October 8, 2025 | 11:00 AM CT
This webinar gives an overview of Read Naturally Live which is our flagship program. Read Naturally Live is one of four programs in the online Read Live platform. This intervention program focuses on fluency and phonics with additional support for vocabulary, spelling and comprehension.
Topics Covered
- A comparison of the four programs in Read Live
- How to log in as a teacher and set up students with access to Read Naturally Live
- How to place students in an appropriate series, level, and goal
- How to differentiate instruction by customizing the settings
- A demonstration of logging in as a student and working through the steps of the program
- Reports for monitoring student progress
- Resources available on the Read Naturally website, including the Read Live Help page
Read Naturally GATE +
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 | 11:00 AM CT
Read Naturally GATE+ supports reading achievement by using the research-proven Read Naturally Strategy including teacher modeling, repeated reading, and progress monitoring. This webinar introduces educators to Read Naturally GATE+, an interactive program that uses explicit, systematic instruction to teach phonemic awareness and phonics, develop fluency, master high frequency words, and provide support for vocabulary and comprehension. The carefully scripted lessons in GATE+ are appropriate for use with small groups or for whole class instruction. The presenter walks through the program steps to show how this direct instruction model improves students’ skills in the areas of phonemic awareness, phonics, spelling, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.
Topics Covered
- How the research-based GATE+ program teaches beginning reading skills and supports vocabulary and comprehension
- Why GATE+ is an effective reading intervention for students
- How the research-based strategy, direct-instruction, and scripted-lesson design support student learning
- How to successfully implement GATE+
Audience
This webinar is appropriate for educators who work with beginning or developing readers, including:
- Teachers new to GATE+
- General education teachers
- Special education teachers
- Title I teachers
- Reading teachers/specialists
- Paraeducators
- School or district administrators
- RTI/MTSS coordinators
Read Naturally Live: Keeping Students Challenged
Wednesday, October 29, 2025 | 11:00 AM CT
Keeping students challenged is critical to making progress in Read Naturally Live. Students make the most progress when they are challenged—but not frustrated. Our Data Mentor feature provides suggestions for level and goal adjustments. By understanding how to interpret the data, you can quickly monitor each student’s performance and make instructional decisions that will maximize each student’s progress.
Topics Covered:
- Why it’s critical to keep students challenged
- How to monitor a student’s performance
- Where to locate the Data Mentor suggestions for each student
- How to quickly interpret the data on a Students At-a-Glance report
- How to determine when a student is ready for more of a challenge
- How to adjust a series, level, or goal within Read Live
- What guidelines to follow when making a change
- How to access additional resources on the Read Naturally website
Read Naturally Live—Español: Basics
Wednesday, November 5, 2025 | 11:00 AM CT
This webinar gives an overview of Read Naturally Live—Español. Read Naturally Live—Español is one of four programs in the online Read Live platform. This intervention program focuses on fluency with additional support for vocabulary and comprehension.
Topics Covered
- A comparison of the four programs in Read Live
- How to log in as a teacher and set up students with access to Read Naturally Live—Español
- How to place students in an appropriate series, level, and goal
- How to differentiate instruction by customizing the settings
- A demonstration of logging in as a student and working through the steps of the program
- Reports for monitoring student progress
- Resources available on the Read Naturally website, including the Read Live Help page
Connect With Us
Book a session with our technical support expert to guide you through setting up Read Live for single sign-on with Clever, Classlink, or Google Classroom.
Schedule a personal meeting with an expert. Get a demo of Read Live or learn more about other intervention programs from Read Naturally.
Please let us know what questions you have so we can assist. For Technical Support, please call us or submit a software support request.