Here’s something I was wrong about when I first started learning how to teach reading. Early on, I believed letter names weren’t an important part of early literacy. I thought that they were confusing on top of learning letter sounds. And honestly? That belief came from logic and experience, not research. It was also validated by cute things I found online that other teachers were doing. Then I learned more. Specifically, I dug into the research on Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) and how letter-n
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Here’s something I was wrong about when I first started learning how to teach reading. Early on, I believed letter names weren’t an important part of early literacy. I thought that they were confusing on top of learning letter sounds. And honestly? That belief came from logic and experience, not research. It was also validated by cute things I found online that other teachers were doing. Then I learned more. Specifically, I dug into the research on Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) and how letter-n
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