What educators need to know about Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) (Learning Difficulties Australia, LDA, Bulletin)

Description:

Dr. Elizabeth Norton defines and explains the Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) assessment and its relationship to reading success.

Rapid automatized naming (RAN) tasks require children to name an array of familiar items as quickly as possible, thus revealing the automaticity of many of the same cognitive and linguistic skills central to reading. RAN ability robustly correlates with reading ability, across different grade levels, reading measures, and languages. Despite all that is known about RAN, many teachers and practitioners are unsure about how or why to employ RAN tasks as part of literacy screening and assessment. Here, the RAN task is explained in terms of what it is and why it relates to reading. Next, the research on the RAN-reading relationship is reviewed. Finally, best practices for implementing RAN in literacy screening and assessment are presented.

To access "What educators need to know about Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN)", visit LDA Bulletin Volume 52, No 1, June 2020.