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Many students need extra phonics support to build a solid foundation for reading success. Developing solid phonics skills can be a long journey, with students in the same groups or classes each requiring focus on different elements and needing varying levels of support. Teachers face the challenge of addressing each student’s unique needs within the same classroom, often with limited time built into their schedule to do so. That’s where Word Warm-Ups Live comes in—an innovative tool designed to help teachers provide differentiated phonics instruction and maximize students' reading achievement. Word Warm-ups Live provides explicit, systematic, and customizable phonics instruction and is included in all Read Live subscriptions.

How does it work?

Teachers save time because students work mostly independently through scaffolded exercises that target specific phonics patterns, such as consonant blends, digraphs, and vowel sounds. They receive audio-supported instruction and have multiple opportunities to practice reading word lists, sentences, and stories as they improve their ability to decode words quickly and accurately. As they work through the program, their performance is automatically tracked, giving teachers clear data on each student’s progress.

What sets it apart?

The structure of the program, along with its customizable options, makes Word Warm-ups Live versatile for use in both whole classrooms and intervention settings. It supports a wide range of students, including beginning readers, older students, and English learners. Teachers can have students work through the program sequentially, starting with short vowels and working up to multisyllabic words. Or, after assessing students to identify their instructional needs in phonics, teachers can provide students with only the specific phonics exercises they need.

Word Warm-ups Live empowers teachers to deliver phonics instruction at scale, offering personalized, largely independent learning that accelerates achievement while optimizing the time teachers spend working one-on-one with students. With ongoing progress monitoring, Word Warm-ups Live provides teachers with data-driven insights that make it easier to adjust instruction as needed, ensuring that each student is continuously supported in their literacy journey.

If your school already has access to Read Live, make sure you're fully utilizing Word Warm-ups Live to support phonics development. Word Warm-ups Live is included with all Read Live licenses at no additional cost. Whether it’s used as an intervention tool or to supplement classroom phonics instruction, this program is a valuable asset for helping students develop the skills they need for reading success.