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Best Practices- Technology Read Naturally



Read Naturally is a supplemental reading program designed to improve reading fluency, accuracy, and comprehension for elementary and middle school students using books, audio, CD's, and computer software. It combines three main strategies: modeling of story reading, repeated reading of text for developing oral reading fluency, and systematic monitoring of student progress by both the teacher and student.

=__**Evidence Based Research:**__=

What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) identified one study of Read Naturally that met the standards with reservations and included 156 adolescent readers in grades 3-6 in one location. WWC considers the extent of evidence to be small for the outcome domaine of general literacy achievement. No studies met in the other three domains, therefore will not report on those domains. Read Naturally was found to have potentially positive effects on general literacy achievement for adolescent readers (What Works Clearninghouse, 2013).

=__**Intended Users:**__=

Read Naturally is intended to be used to supplement core language instruction by using the CD with the reading material so the student can hear fluent reading modeled and the software Read Naturally-Software Edition can stand alone or school network version and Read Live is an online version of the computerized program.

=__**Cost:**__=

The audio CDs cost $129. The computer program costs $125 per reading level for one computer and $399 per reading level for school network version. Read Live, the online software version, is priced per seating ranging from $149 for one seat to $1,999 for 130 seats. There is teacher training available at an additional cost. There are additional materials available at cost as well.

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Reference What Works Clearninghouse Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved on July 18, 2013 from []