The student answers questions about the story. Responding to the text holds the student accountable for meaning, develops the ability to answer many types of questions, and provides teachers with information about how well the student comprehends the story. This step is the repeated-reading component of the Read Naturally Strategy, which helps the student improve fluency, master difficult words, and understand the story. The student practices reading the story without audio support three to ten times until able to read it accurately, with expression, and at the goal rate. This step is the teacher-modeling component of the Read Naturally Strategy, which helps the student learn new words and master others as well as learn proper pronunciation, expression, and phrasing. The student reads along quietly with a recording of the story, typically three times. This step establishes a baseline for progress monitoring, the component of the Read Naturally Strategy that motivates the student to improve. The student clicks unknown words while reading, and then clicks the last word read during the timing. Read Naturally Live subtracts the unknown words from the total number of words attempted to obtain a cold-timing score and displays it on a graph. The teacher may time the student for one minute as he or she reads the story, or the student may complete this step independently. The prediction prepares the student’s mind for reading the story. The student uses the title, picture, and key words to write a prediction of what he or she thinks the story is about. The key words provide definitions that are important to understanding the story. In the Phonics series, the student listens to a phonics lesson and reads words that have the featured phonics patterns. In the Sequenced and Idioms series, the student reads the key words and their definitions while listening to an audio recording. Choosing the story deepens the student’s investment in the material. The student clicks on the story he or she wants to read. Research basis for the Read Naturally Strategy Read Naturally Live is an online reading program that accelerates reading achievement by combining the research-proven strategies of teacher modeling, repeated reading, and progress monitoring. A student works at his or her own pace in an appropriate level of material. Text and audio guide the student through the steps. The student masters a story by reading along with audio and then practicing the story until he or she can read it fluently and with comprehension. The program automatically tracks student progress. Student's Guide to Read Naturally Live-Español.Student's Guide to One Minute Reader Live.