Kindergarten Fluency- Heart Words and RAN
Rapid Automatic Naming
- Letters and Individual Sounds-Student repeats subsets of letters or sounds to gain automaticity until they can do all letters and sounds.
- Real Word and Nonsense Words- Students decode VC and CVC structured real and nonsense words (not real words) in timed sets for sound and blending fluency.
Heart Words Instruction and Strategies
How to Teach Heart Words
- Introduce the word and have students repeat it.
- Tap out the sounds you hear in the word.
- Explicitly teach the irregular sound that the heart letters make.
- Do many repetitions of reading and writing the word.