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
Read Naturally Live Basics
Thursday, January 16, 2025 | 12:00 PM 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 Live Account Set-up
Tuesday, January 21, 2025 | 11:00 AM CT
Attend this webinar for a brief navigation of Read Live account set-up.
Topics covered:
- Read Live initial login
- Main navigation menu and home page overview
- How to create Schools
- How to create Teachers
- How to add Students individually
- 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
- Michele Calvin, Technical Specialist
- Christy Baldinger, Account Onboarding Specialist
Read Live Basics
Thursday, January 30, 2025 | 1:00 PM 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 GATE+ Basics
Tuesday, February 4, 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: Placement
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 | 11:00 AM CT
Placement is the process of determining the level of reading material and setting an initial reading rate goal for a student who is about to begin using Read Naturally Live. There are two options for this process: conducted placement or student independent placement. Placing a student in Read Naturally Live involves establishing the following:
- Level: Which level of material is most appropriate for this student?
- Series: Which series would most benefit this student?
- Goal: Which goal rate will challenge but not frustrate the student?
Topics covered:
- How to determine a level, select a series, and set a goal for your students before they begin using the Read Naturally Live program.
- How to identify students’ earliest phonics needs.
- A live demonstration of the placement process in Read Naturally Live.
- Free resources that will support implementation of Read Naturally Live.
Read Naturally Live: Checking Initial Placement
Thursday, February 20, 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
Word Warm-ups Live Basics
Wednesday, February 26, 2025 | 12:00 PM CT
This webinar gives an overview of Word Warm-ups Live, one of the intervention programs in the online Read Live platform. Word Warm-ups Live builds automaticity and accuracy in decoding through explicit and systematic phonics instruction. Additionally, this program supports fluency, spelling, and phonemic awareness development.
Topics covered:
- A comparison of the four components of Read Live
- How to log in as a teacher and set up students with access to Word Warm-ups Live
- How to assess students in order to select the appropriate curriculum option to meet their phonics needs
- A demonstration of logging in as a student and working through the steps of word-list and story exercises
- Reports for monitoring students’ 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.