Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) and Word Reading Fluency in Early School-Aged Children: A Pilot Eye-Tracking Study.

ABSTRACT: Fluent word reading is a key literacy skill, yet the full extent of the oculomotor underpinnings in developing readers remains unknown. Rapid automatized naming (RAN) is a useful clinical measure that has been shown to predict word reading fluency. Here we use RAN scores to predict early, mid, and late local stages of word reading as measured by eye tracking in children who are at a critical time in their literacy development. Thirty-three children participated in two RAN tasks (rapid letter naming (RLN) and rapid digit naming (RDN)) and an eye-tracking task, which included sentence-level reading with an embedded target word. The eye-tracking measures of first fixation duration, regression path duration, and total word reading time were used as early, mid, and late local measures, respecti

SUBMITTER: Baron A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12921791 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature