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Letter naming fluency
Strategies for Parents to help students at home
- Start with name letters. We often start teaching letter naming fluency with the letters of students' names. ...
- Point, say, and learn. ...
- Roll and name. ...
- Clip the letters. ...
- Play a game of Bang! ...
- Pull and Say. ...
- Park letter cars. ...
- Pull letters from a sensory bin.
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| What is letter naming fluency ? |
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| Letter Naming Fluency (LNF) assesses students' ability to identify individual letters and say letter names. The. assessor marks letter names read incorrectly or skipped from an arrangement of randomly ordered upper and. lower-case letters. |
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How can you help your child at home practice his/her LNF or letter naming fluency?
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Strategies for Parents:
Play word games that connect sounds with syllables and words (for example, if the letters “p-e-n” spell pen, how do you spell hen?). Write letters on cards. Hold up the cards one at a time and have your children say the sounds (for example, the /d/ sound for the letter d). |
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What does fluent letter naming lead to?
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| Fluency in letter naming leads to word-reading accuracy and fluency, and to reading comprehension. |
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| What are some helpful websites for parents to help students practice LNF (letter naming fluency) at home? |
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readingrockets.org
simplykinder.com
wordwall.net |
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Letter Naming Fluency (LNF) is a brief assessment that measures a student's ability to recognize and name letters.
What is the administration time for LNF scoring? |
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| What are some of the important scoring rules and tips? |
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The student receives 1 point for each letter correctly named in 1 minute.
- Do not mark letters named correctly.
- In the font used on LNF, the lowercase L may look like an uppercase I. Give the student a point for naming the lowercase L as either an L or an I. Do not give the student a point for calling it a number 1. Students are not penalized for differences in pronunciation due to dialect, articulation delays or impairments, or for pronunciations due to speaking a first language other than English.
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| Children's knowledge of letter names and shapes is a strong predictor of their success in learning to read. Knowing letter names is strongly related to children's ability to remember the forms of written words and their ability to treat words as sequences of letters. |
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| What are valid indicators? |
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| Although letter naming fluency (LNF) and letter sound fluency (LSF) measures are widely available to educators for assessing early literacy skills of kindergarten children, better understanding of the contributions of these skills to reading development can help improve the interpretation of LNF and LSF data for instructional decisions. |
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| What are the scores my student should have when they are timed for one minute? |
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According to DIBELS data the benchmarks should be :
37 or more at the middle mark of Kindergarten
42 or more at the ending of Kindergarten (EOY) |
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