Advantages? Who? Disadvantages?

1. Students will graph their
progress which allows
them to see their progress
and ways to improve.
2. Read Naturally is based on
teacher modeling,
repeated reading, and
progress monitoring.
3. Activities/assignments are
self-directed
Name: Read Naturally
The students who would benefit from this practice are 1. Activities/assignments
elementary and middle school students. Read Naturally
are self-directed so the
has shown to help students who are White, Native
interaction with peers
American, Black, Asian, and others who are not
specified. It has also helped students who are non-
are limited.
2. May feel like a test
Hispanic, Hispanics, and ELL learners. Students who are
dyslexic or have any other disability benefit through 3. Student’s motivation
flexible story options, extensive audio support ease of will decrease
differentiating instruction, and monitoring of progress.
Practice and Brief Description

Description: This research practice is a supplemental reading program that aims to improve
reading fluency, accuracy, and comprehension for students who are in elementary and middle
school. Read Naturally can be implemented in the general classroom, resource room, media,
room, extended day program, and multiple level classrooms. The three main strategies include
repeated reading of text for oral fluency, teacher modeling, and systematic monitoring of
student progress by teachers and students themselves.

https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/Docs/InterventionReports/wwc_readnaturally_070913.pdf

https://www.readnaturally.com/about-us/blog/read-naturally-featured-as-assistive-
technology-solution

How does it work?

The specific steps a teacher should take to implement this practice is to first access a student’s oral reading through a curriculum-based
measure. Based on the test results, students will then be provided with a reading level. There are different levels that students can be placed
in, with each level containing twenty-four non-fiction, high interest stories for student to choose. The low reading level stories also contain
high frequency words. Once students are logged into Read Naturally, they will first select a story. Students will then be provided with key
words where they will then write a prediction. Teachers may decide to engage in a cold reading where they will time their students reading
the story for one minute or allow the student to complete this step alone. Students will then complete a read along with a recording of the
story. They will then complete some practice followed by a quiz. Students will then retell/summarize the story to improve comprehension
and then read the story to the teacher to show that they can read with expression with minimal errors.