Understanding and Building Stronger Writing Skills K-3

1. Building Writing Skills. K-3

This chart will provide you with the CCSS for writing narratives K-3 and ways you may guide your students become stronger writers. 

Rapid Letter Naming (RLN)

Rapid Letter Naming (RLN) has been proven to increase our ability to comprehend (Brain Connection, 2017) RLN is connecting visual and verbal information quickly without having to use cognitive energy to speak the written symbols.  Young children begin this process first by listening, then speaking, and finally visually, starting with environmental items such as “glass,” “dog,” “house.” Then adding pictures, next phase is moving toward reading. The brain has to be taught rapid automatic recall. This can be started by naming pictures quickly and then moving to naming letters (Brain Connection, 2017).  The objective is to train the brain to automatically recall using metacognition rather than just cognition. Building this skill in kindergarten and first grade will then allow the student’s brain to transfer the skill to reading words.

Below is a chart and link for you to create your own RLN sheet for students. If you replace the first row the rest of the chart will adjust. You are able to create charts for the letters your students are struggling with or create word-reading charts.  Make sure you post how you use the chart. We can all benefit from each other’s ideas.

Rapid Reading Chart Link

 

Brain Connection, 2017 (9/6/17), https://brainconnection.brainhq.com/brain-teasers/rapid-naming/